On Wall Street, one type of colleague remains ‘problematic’: the woman
EEOC interim chair Andrea Lucas has urged white men who feel discriminated against at work to file a federal complaint. “Are you a white man who has been disadvantaged at work because of your race or gender? Then you may be able to get money back,” Lucas said in a video on X. Act quickly, is the message.
Protectionist reflexes still stand in the way of Europe’s champions
The failed partnership between Italy’s Generali and France’s BPCE is more than a collapsed deal in European asset management. It exposes how challenging it remains for Europe to build financial scale once a project becomes truly cross-border, and how protectionist reflexes, legal uncertainty and unfinished integration can combine to smother a transaction.
What remains of ‘Who cares wins’? ESG after 25 years in perspective
What began as a tool for measuring risks evolved into a normative framework, only to return under political pressure to its core: the G. After 25 years, ESG has come of age, but not without scars.
2026 Perspective: Global Infrastructure Strategy
Infrastructure markets continue to evolve amid shifting global themes. Jags Walia, Head of Infrastructure, shares our perspective on the dynamics shaping the sector and what we are watching in 2026.
Morningstar: Invesco vs AQR in risk parity funds
Risk parity investors showed renewed optimism in 2025 after several years of underperformance versus the traditional balanced portfolios.
Private banking attracts the most readers in Belgium in 2025
Interest in private banking was high last year among Investment Officer’s Belgian readers. The overview of the ten most read articles of 2025 in Belgium shows that readers were primarily interested in people, organization and the strategic challenges facing the sector.
From lottery bonds to cryptocurrencies: the rational gamble of the small investor
For the average institutional investor, the appeal of lottery-like stocks—shares with a low price, high potential returns, and extreme volatility—is a mystery. But poorer investors simply reason very differently.
IO asset manager survey: structural risks are rising, but risk appetite holds up
For the second time, the editorial team of Investment Officer conducted a year-end survey among large asset managers operating in Europe. The aim was to assess their outlooks for 2026 based on a standardized set of proprietary questions. The common thread is that risks have become structural, without leading to a flight from risk assets.
Chart of the week: few US jobs, how so?
There was eager anticipation for a new US labor market report. And not only because the flow of macro data from the United States is still lagging as a result of the shutdown. The US labor market is what can still obscure the real reason why rates were cut by another quarter point. But that argument does not hold either.
Morningstar: Comgest vs JPMorgan in Japan largecap growth equity
Morningstar has refined its Japanese equity framework as persistent style dispersion forces investors to reassess growth-focused fund selection in Japan.