Raymond Frenken

Raymond Frenken

A row of cooling towers at Google's data center near Mons, Belgium. Photo: Wikimapia CC.
Asset Allocation
October 14, 2025

Energy efficiency is the new driver in big tech

Artificial intelligence has unleashed an energy race across big tech, one investors can no longer…
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Cheap Street. Photo: Unsplash.
Investing
October 9, 2025

Another wave of price pressure hits European fund managers

Europe’s fee war is entering a new phase. Morningstar’s latest European Fund Fee Study finds that…
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Sunset in Paris. Photo: CC0 via pxhere.
Asset Allocation
October 6, 2025

French political turmoil underlines ‘desynchronized growth’ in Europe

French assets came under renewed pressure on Monday after Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned…
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State Street’s Ann Prendergast with Erik van Houwelingen, board member Van Lanschot Kempen. Photo: VLK.
Asset Managers
October 1, 2025

Van Lanschot Kempen partners with State Street for active ETFs

Van Lanschot Kempen is preparing to enter the active ETF market through a new partnership with State…
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Asset Allocation
September 29, 2025

ESG is losing its shine but gaining weight

Once seen as compliance or ideology, ESG is becoming part of ordinary risk management. Interviews…
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Hortense Bioy, global director sustainability research at Morningstar. Photo: Morningstar.
Laws and Regulations
September 25, 2025

UK ESG fund labels seen as poor example for SFDR 2.0

The United Kingdom’s new ESG fund labels have struggled to gain traction. As Brussels prepares an…
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Sam Zief, JP Morgan Private Bank.
Asset Allocation
September 24, 2025

Weak dollar brings classic FX hedging back into play

With the euro expected to strengthen further, portfolio strategies are increasingly being shaped by…
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Laws and Regulations
September 15, 2025

Critics fear EuroPension repeats mistakes that doomed PEPP

Europe’s pensions supervisor is relaunching the failed Pan-European Personal Pension Product under a…
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The Assemblée nationale in Paris, the French parliament. Photo: Jarosław Baranowski/Wikimedia.
Asset Allocation
September 10, 2025

Markets tolerate French paralysis as long as yields stay high

France’s government is adrift after Bayrou’s resignation, yet its bonds still draw buyers. Investors…
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Bjoern Jesch, former global CIO at DWS, is joining Allianz Global Investors. Photo: DWS.
Transfers
August 28, 2025

Transfers: Bjoern Jesch swaps DWS for Allianz Global Investors

This week’s overview of people transfers and appointments includes updates from Allianz Global…
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Investors listening to a discussion hosted by a European asset manager. Photo: IO.
Asset Managers
August 18, 2025

Strong inflows mask tensions in Europe’s fund landscape

Strong inflows at Amundi, Natixis, DWS and Allianz show investors’ appetite for income strategies…
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Robinhood last year signed a three-year deal to sponsor French football club OGC Nice. Photo: OGC Nice.
Investing
August 11, 2025

Robinhood set to hack Europe’s equity rulebook using MiCA

Robinhood, the Silicon Valley-based brokerage known for disrupting Wall Street with zero-commission…
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Met Alto probeert Amundi de macht van Aladdin te doorbreken. Illustratie gemaakt met Dall-e/AI.
Technology
July 3, 2025

Alto! Amundi casts a European spell on Aladdin

Amundi COO Guillaume Lesage, in an interview, reveals how Alto is trying to break Aladdin’s spell…
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Mike Chen, head of Next Generation Quant at Robeco. Photo: Robeco.
Asset Managers
June 23, 2025

Robeco embraces agentic AI as next disruptor in asset management

Agentic AI, a new class of artificial intelligence capable of autonomous decision-making, is…
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