The rush among private clients to buy into SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic before they reach public markets is pulling capital into structures few buyers can fully verify, according to Jan van Eck, chief executive of VanEck. He warns that the market has now …

The banks the European single market was designed to enable are the ones underwriting its unfinished state. Two decades into the project of unified financial services, cross-border groups still face materially different national interpretations of the …

The energy crisis and looming jet fuel shortage are a disaster for aviation, but could also hit equity markets hard after all. Asset managers are gloomy about the aviation sector and warn about the consequences for investors. Due to the blockade of the …

In 1972, Richard Nixon flew to Beijing convinced that the world was becoming multipolar. He sought to position the United States as one of several great powers, strong enough to balance the Soviet Union and other emerging rivals. What he could not foresee …

Texas aims to challenge the dominant position of New York and Delaware in the U.S. capital markets with a new stock exchange and more flexible regulation. But sufficient liquidity, reliable price discovery, and investor confidence are not easily achieved, …

When asset managers come under fire, there is only one relevant question for them: how do I maintain trust? Their crisis communication should revolve entirely around that. “When I really think about what asset managers actually own, I come up with chairs, …

Germany’s economy has struggled for momentum in recent years, weighed down by structural headwinds and weak growth, yet its stock market has told a very different story. Over the past several years, the German economy has struggled to regain sustained …

Just like a few years ago, asset managers are once again questioning the traditional 60/40 mix between equities and bonds, as the two asset classes are no longer reacting in opposite directions to market shocks, but increasingly moving in tandem. Is the …

Geopolitical unrest is forcing investors to reassess their portfolios. As bonds lose their strength, volatile asset classes are returning as an alternative for diversification, said Jitzes Noorman, delegated CIO and investment strategist at Columbia …

Malick Badjie has joined Pictet Asset Management as global co-head of sales and member of the executive committee, effective May 1. He will share the role with Niall Quinn and report to Raymond Sagayam, managing partner and co-chief executive officer of …

Van Eck warns on opaque SpaceX trading

ABBL warns on EU banking fragmentation

‘Investors underestimate the impact of the energy crisis’

The Trump-Xi Summit

Can the new Texas stock exchange break the East Coast’s hegemony?

Crisis communication: “Everything needs to come out at once”

Morningstar: DWS versus Fidelity in German equity

60/40 portfolio under pressure again, ‘but still too early to bury it’

Volatile asset classes strengthen ‘war portfolio’

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