May 2019

Editorial: Nordic thriller

The closet-tracking scandal, the Icelandic crash and sustainable investing are perhaps the three best descriptors to sum up the background to Scandinavian and Nordic...

Opinion: Diversity of outcomes

Some years ago, I visited a yoga retreat in Portugal. Late at night, two women arrived in a taxi. They were from California and...

Nordics: Northern exposure

With the closet tracking controversy largely behind it, a steady economy and the relaxation of Icelandic capital controls, the Nordics’ funds industry is looking...

Euan Munro interview: Aims and objectives

Despite massive outflows from absolute return strategies in recent years, there will continue to be a market for such funds in the future, Aviva...

Exchange-traded funds: Zero-fee barred from entry

In the US, low-fee passive business has gone a step beyond offering funds for free and into the realm of ‘negative’ fees. Could it...

Markets: A most unloved bull market

Fund managers sound optimistic about a continuation of the market rally, given improving economic prospects in the US and China. And there’s plenty of...

Sponsored profile: Big Data for data accuracy

Data analytics will revolutionise investment funds and their distribution when the industry learns the value of coherent, qualitative datasets. By Maxime Aerts, chief operating...

French equity funds inside view: Worse than Brexit

By one measure, and despite the Brexit issue, French equity funds have been hit harder than UK equity funds since the start of 2016....

ESG inside view: What is ESG and why should investors care?

Julie Moret, who leads ESG at Franklin Templeton Investments, considers what fund managers mean when they say they integrate ESG into their investment processes. The...

Infrastructure inside view: Building resistance

Major building programmes to boost ailing infrastructure could reduce the risk of recession in the near term, says Andrew Harmstone of Morgan Stanley Investment...

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