Investment Officer Netherlands

While ESG may be politically sensitive, Invesco reports that inflows continue to build. Natixis IM’s US Media Summit in New York showed just how sharply opinions on the theme diverge across the Atlantic.

Buy-and-hold and active management remain the preferred investment strategies among family offices in the Benelux. More than half of their portfolios are allocated to private equity and listed equities.

Het is december en dus verschuift de aandacht naar 2026. Uiteraard vergezeld van een golf aan outlooks, die helaas vaak al deels achterhaald zijn tegen de tijd dat het nieuwe jaar begint. Toch ontvouwt zich momenteel een dynamiek die volgend jaar tot flink wat vuurwerk zou kunnen leiden.

InsingerGilissen CEO Martijn Storsbergen discusses how the Dutch private bank is positioning itself within the Quintet group, arguing that a strong parent company and scale have become essential in today’s private banking landscape.

With the pullback of the dollar and the decline in (short-term) interest rates this year, emerging markets have finally come back into favor. Well below the radar, however, frontier markets have already enjoyed growing popularity among a select audience for some time.

In 2020, VanEck chose Liechtenstein to lay the foundation for its first crypto investments. Since then, the crypto team has expanded significantly. According to VanEck, this is a preview of what the future of fund management may look like.

Europe’s fund market is on the brink of a major reshuffle. Under SFDR 2.0, the European Commission’s revised sustainability rulebook, non-sustainable Article 6 funds are set to become the dominant category at the expense of the most popular sustainability category, Article 8.