Gestionnaires de patrimoine

Pour Laurence De Munter, stratège en investissement chez Securities De Munter, l’année 2024 est placée sous le signe des baisses de taux d’intérêt, ce qui rend les obligations à long terme intéressantes et permet aux actions sensibles à l’évolution des taux de faire leur retour.

Private banks are navigating challenges in discerning customers› sustainability preferences, hindered by a lack of common definitions and necessary data. The struggle persists as new legislation under Mifid 2, effective since August 2022, mandates including sustainability factors in suitability tests. Oxford Risk’s survey among wealth managers reveals industry-wide difficulties in implementation.

Protracted discussions over the EU’s new regime for European Long Term Investment Funds, known as Eltifs, are delaying the launch of new funds for these private asset investments.

Selon Sébastien Lippens (Privafin), les ETF enregistrés en Belgique sont impactés par une fiscalité pénalisante et illogique, qui privilégie le recours à des produits non enregistrés. 

Beaucoup de paperasserie, des questions difficiles sur l’origine des actifs, de longs délais d’attente pour l’ouverture d’un compte… Pour les clients des institutions financières, y compris les banques privées, les nombreux contrôles ont constitué une source majeure de frustration au cours de la dernière décennie. Mais la situation est en train de changer, grâce à une vague d’automatisation et de numérisation, ainsi qu’à une attitude moins rigide de la part de la Nederlandsche Bank.

Berlin-based Moonfare said it plans to create a dedicated secondary liquidity mechanism that enables retail investors in Eltif 2.0 funds to unwind their holdings before the fund matures.

More than two thirds of fund selectors see active fund management as key to outperforming in the current year, a reflection of its growing importance in uncertain markets, the latest Natixis 2024 Fund Selector Outlook Survey shows.

The survey uncovered a strategic pivot among wealth managers, who over the past decade have largely favoured passively managed index funds. However, 45% of fund selectors attribute the outperformance of passive investments to a decade of artificially low interest rates and minimal inflation, conditions that are changing. 

Investment specialists are singing from a common hymn book in predicting the world is on a path to lower inflation and treasury yields, though they carefully call attention to possible transitional effects, Investment Officer heard while covering two recent investment events in Luxembourg hosted by J. Safra Sarasin and Capital Group.

This week’s overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other people news includes updates from Fidelity, Alma LED Luxembourg, Fundcraft and Better Finance.

Christine Baalham and Tom Record

Christine Baalham and Tom Record have been appointed as co-portfolio managers in the global equity team at Fidelity International. Veteran portfolio manager Jeremy Podger will transition to a senior advisory role in March 2024. 

Si tout se déroule comme prévu, le family office anversois proposera prochainement des services de gestion patrimoniale (et de conseil en investissement).