Insights

Do AI-powered ETFs outperform their human-managed rivals?

Mar 28, 2023

AI, ETFs, Chatbot, Benjamin David investigates whether innovative technology such as ChatGPT can play a role in fashioning market-beating exchange-traded funds.

Digital assets: The race to regulate digital assets

Mar 10, 2023

digital assets, webinar, regulate, regulation In a recent Funds Europe webinar, our panel debates the need for an appropriately regulated digital assets market and considers what these rules...

Exchange-traded funds: The race for innovation in ETFs

Mar 09, 2023

innovation, ETFs, funds, artificial intelligence, AI From smart beta products to artificial intelligence, Benjamin David explores the trends shaping the ETF market.

Interview: It’s cool to be an ESG expert

Mar 07, 2023

ESG, Texas, expert, renewables, investment Amid an ESG backlash, Texas should be recognised for its contribution to renewables, American Century Investments’ Sarah Bratton Hughes tells...

Editorial: Fraught outsourcing

Mar 06, 2023

outsourcing, asset management, news, fraught News that Australia’s Link Group is looking to sell a UK subsidiary business that provided external ‘authorised...

Private equity: Why the healthcare sector appeals to private equity so strongly

Mar 06, 2023

healthcare, private equity, Health and medicine providers can bring tangible benefits to portfolios’ ESG scores. That’s one reason private equity deals are rife in the sector, writes...

Opinion

ESG rating market failure is more urgent than UK regulators know

ESG, rating, market, failure, urgent, UK, regulators The UK financial regulator - now scrutinising ESG ratings providers - must realise the stakes are much higher than exaggerated environmental claims for...

What investors should reassess after Silicon Valley Bank's collapse

investors, reassess, Silicon Valley Bank, bank collapse, banks With the failure of the US bank Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) this week, we saw the largest banking collapse since the...

Proxy voting to see "digital transformation" in 2023 voting season

voting, digital, transformation, 2023, season Digital proxy voting technology can help companies move beyond ESG box-ticking, says Jonathan Smalley of Proxymity.

The next evolution of shadow accounting is co-sourcing

evolution, accounting, co-sourcing, managers, data Managers no longer have to choose between streamlined accounting processes and control of their data. By Yuriy Shterk, chief product officer,...

Industry Comment

Q&A: How fundcraft is revolutionising fund administration

fundcraft, revolutionising, fund administration, fund, Julien de Mayer,fund services, private equity, alternative, investments fundcraft CEO Julien de Mayer talks about how...

A cohesive client focus creates a competitive edge

David Kubilus, cohesive, client focus, competitive, edge U.S. Bank’s David Kubilus tells Funds Europe about the importance of offering an entrepreneurial customer...

Born to be different

John Sergides, born, different, asset servicing MUFG Investor Services CEO John Sergides talks about the changing alternative asset servicing space and the importance of being different....

Hedge funds explore the next big distribution opportunity

With the right administrative support, there's no reason why retail market can't be an exciting new source of opportunity for hedge funds. By Fiona Mulligan, Global Hedge Fund...

Fund launches

Global X ETFs launches four China-related funds

M&G unveils Article 9 health fund

Fidelity targets emission-cutting nations with green sovereign bond ETF

Franklin Templeton launches Article 8 EM ETF

BNY Mellon launches emerging market impact bond fund

Executive Interviews

Interview: "It's more than just ESG-integration"

Northern Trust’s Marie Dzanis, head of asset management, EMEA, and Julie Moret, global head of sustainable investing and stewardship, talk to Benjamin David about the interconnected nature of ESG...

Paris CEO report: what’s changing for asset managers?

Following our head-to-head Paris discussion Funds Europe spoke to two more major French industry leaders at Amundi and Axa IM. Topics for discussion included the ‘new abnormal’ business...

Roundtables & Panels

Roundtable: Are thematic ETFs active?

Company engagement and good returns go “hand in hand”, says an expert on our panel, as we discuss active exchange-traded funds and the role of ETFs in the green transition.

Luxembourg Roundtable: “We have good reason to believe it might work”

The success of the Eltif and the tokenisation of private assets funds are among the topics discussed in Funds Europe's private markets roundtable in Luxembourg.

Leading up to ALFI's European Asset Management Conference (21-22 March), this month's country in focus is Luxembourg.

Luxembourg in Focus

Global Automation

Edward Glyn, Head of Global Markets at Calastone, discusses some of the most intriguing findings from our recent research into automation in the global investment management industry.