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Out with the old, in with the new?

Happy New Year from funds europe. We wave goodbye to the Noughties and start 2010  here in the UK amidst pleasingly crisp winter snow and a...

Modified Rapture as we go into 2010

Modified rapture seems to be the name of the game as 2009, a year of highs and lows, draws to close. “Evidence suggests the European economic...

We need to talk about fees

Fund directors should be required to interpret their fiduciary responsibility as relating to the fees their shareholders bear, suggests a new report from Lipper...

Life without walls

Today in Europe we are celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall – or at least those of us who are old enough to remember it...

Cross-border groups cash in on emerging markets

Fund groups that sell cross-border benefited most from the resurgent European appetite for emerging-markets funds in evidence in the first half of 2009, according to new report...

ALL EYES ON ETFs

HSBC has become became the latest firm to announce its entry into the European ETF market. The bank has launched an ETF based on the FTSE...

INVESTING IN SUNSHINE

The sun is shining brightly this morning here at my personal HQ in Glasgow (I’m lying, of course), but in the European fund industry...

THE ART OF INVESTMENT

Shopping malls, infrastructure, timber: these have all been posited as lucrative investment opportunities in recent years. But while the idea of investing in art...

SAFE AS … FUNDS?

As more European banking top brass do the decent thing and get lost – this morning it was Charles Milhaud and Nicolas Mérindol, respectively...

Bash-a-Banker, why don’t ya?

First of all, please allow me to apologise for not writing more about, you know, funds. But as Lipper Feri says in its latest...

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

The tension between urgency and inaction will continue to influence sustainability discussions in 2024, as reflected in the trends report from S&P Global.
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CLOUD DATA PLATFORMS

Luxembourg is one of the world’s premiere centres for cross-border distribution of investment funds. Read our special regional coverage, coinciding with the annual ALFI European Asset Management Conference.
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