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Asset Managers
December 10, 2025

Mandates lose ground to funds

Assets managed through discretionary mandates have expanded more slowly in Europa over the past ten…
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Asset Managers
December 8, 2025

Resilience in financial markets the surprise of 2025

Many fund houses mark Liberation Day—the day president Trump announced sharply higher US trade…
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Aaron Renkers
Asset Managers
December 2, 2025

In Liechtenstein, VanEck shapes tomorrow’s fund management

In 2020, VanEck chose Liechtenstein to lay the foundation for its first crypto investments. Since…
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Fannie Wurtz
Asset Managers
November 20, 2025

Amundi launches 100 new ETFs by 2028

Fund house Amundi presented its strategic three-year plan on Tuesday. It includes a new business…
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Anna Rosenberg, head of geopolitics at the Amundi Investment Institute. Photo: Amundi.
Asset Managers
November 11, 2025

The new Cold War runs on artificial intelligence

Anna Rosenberg of Amundi Investment Institute says the same forces that once drove nuclear and space…
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Asset Managers
November 10, 2025

Blackrock: Germany should put its savings to work through private markets

Germany should move its trillions of euros in savings out of banks and put them to work for its…
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Tanguy van de Werve. Photo: EFAMA.
Asset Managers
November 5, 2025

Brussels urged to cut the white noise in securitisation

EFAMA’s Tanguy van de Werve says securitisation can help reconnect investors with the real economy…
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UniCredit this year became a sponsor of the Ferrari Formula 1 team. Photo: UniCredit.
Asset Managers
November 4, 2025

Italy cools on French fund groups as UniCredit exits Amundi deal

Two major European cross-border asset management relationships are losing momentum, with Italian…
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Karel Nierop, head of products and solutions at Triodos IM. Photo: Triodos.
Asset Allocation
October 21, 2025

‘Nature-based solutions are where renewable energy was 15 years ago’

Triodos Investment Management is betting that nature-based solutions, still a niche segment, will…
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Asset Managers
October 7, 2025

Split on rate path, US firms agree on how to position in Treasuries

US asset managers are finding common ground on one point: the short end of the U.S. Treasury curve…
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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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Keyrock CEO Kevin de Patoul (left) speaking at the Real World Asset Summit in Brooklyn last week.
Asset Managers
September 23, 2025

Tokenized funds set to eclipse traditional structures

Tokenized funds will overtake traditional structures within five years, says Keyrock CEO Kevin de…
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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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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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