Eastern Europe outpaces the West, but investors remain absent
Eastern Europe has been growing faster than the West for years. Western European companies are benefiting from that growth through large-scale factory investments. International investors, however, have completely missed the bull market. They left after the war in Ukraine and have not returned. According to analysts at Fidelity International and Karoll Capital, it is time to come back.
Xtrackers push DWS assets under management above 1,000 billion euro
The Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) of DWS are making a significant contribution to the growth of the German asset manager. The assets under management of the firm, in which Deutsche Bank holds an 80 percent stake, increased in 2025 by 73 billion euro to the record sum of 1,085 billion euro. Two thirds of the inflow of 51 billion euro was driven by demand for the in-house Xtrackers ETFs.