Passive by default: is euro credit sleepwalking through a shifting landscape?
Euro credit is often treated as the quiet corner of portfolios – stable, low maintenance, and easy to overlook. That assumption is under pressure. Structural biases and shifting market dynamics are making passive exposure harder to justify.
Vive la France!
Last week, the French government survived two motions of no confidence, mainly by promising not to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 for the time being. For S&P, however, this was reason enough to downgrade France’s credit rating from AA- to A+. It may seem like a minor detail, but for managers of fixed income funds that require at least AA-rated investments, it created an immediate problem. Did all those French government bonds suddenly need to be dumped?
Why water investments are struggling
Disrupted supply chains, volatile market conditions, and lagging investments have made investing in the water theme challenging. In recent years, European investors have withdrawn billions from water funds.
Last wave of traditional managers embraces the active ETF model
As active ETFs grow beyond niche status, some of the last traditionally active managers, including Columbia Threadneedle and M&G, are entering the European market with strategies that blend research conviction and daily oversight.
‘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 mature into a full-fledged asset class within the next decade.
Hardly any insurers still invested in government bonds
Driven by steadily declining yields and increasingly strict capital requirements, Dutch, Belgian, French, and German insurers have in recent years largely divested from government bonds. The freed-up capital has mainly been invested in corporate bonds and private debt.
How investors engage with Natural Capital- a study
In this report we explore how natural capital is being framed within portfolios, the role of farmland as a tangible entry point, expectations around return and impact, and the barriers and enablers shaping this emerging asset class.
Morningstar: T. Rowe Price vs MFS in global EM bonds
Emerging-markets hard currency bonds have delivered positive returns for USD investors in every quarter of 2025. However, European-based investors faced negative returns in the first half of the year due to a stronger euro.
World’s top US growth manager puts faith in God, not tech-bubble prophets
The world’s number one US growth manager, according to Citywire’s manager rankings, says fundamentals still rule, even as bubble talk grows louder. He’d rather put his trust in God.
The rise of EMD is not a wave, but an upward trend
Not only this year are bonds from emerging markets an attractive alternative to the volatile debt of developed economies. European asset managers are seeing a structural shift in the financial policies of these countries. Amundi has even recently merged its emerging markets and developed markets teams.