Swiss VC Serpentine sees ‘gold standard’ in Luxembourg Raifs

For Zurich-based Serpentine Ventures, a venture asset manager, Luxembourg is a key gateway to reaching international investors. The firm is leveraging the grand duchy’s regime for alternative investment funds for four of its venture capital funds that nurture Swiss startups.

Funds For Good lance une nouvelle pricaf microfinance

Au terme de longs mois de préparation, le gestionnaire patrimonial Funds For Good lancera d’ici la fin de ce trimestre la pricaf privée ImpaktEU en collaboration avec le gestionnaire de fonds à impact Inpulse Asset Management. La pricaf privée sera dédiée au microfinancement d’entrepreneurs sociaux en Europe.

Top 5 Cheapest Article 9 Equity Funds: AXA in the lead

The idea that sustainable funds will be more expensive than conventional funds due to the extra cost of sustainability research is not necessarily true. Both active and passive funds turn out to be cheaper. Sustainable funds are classified under European regulations into Article 8 and Article 9 funds. Within the latter category, we rank the cheapest options within global large-cap equity funds.

Invesco: metaverse ‘next big thing’

Il y a quelques semaines, le gestionnaire d’actifs Invesco a lancé le fonds Invesco Metaverse. Le fonds est également lancé sur le marché belge.

Les deux gestionnaires du fonds, Tony Roberts et James McDermottroe, voient un énorme potentiel dans le développement et l’utilisation ultérieure du métavers. Il est grand temps d’interviewer les deux hommes pour faire la lumière sur ce nouveau monde virtuel.

Top 5: quality equity funds

Factor investing, an investment approach that involves targeting specific drivers of return across asset classes, is attracting increasing interest from investors. Factors such as value, size and momentum have a long history in the investment world and have been extensively empirically researched and documented in the academic literature. Although there are different variations for these factors as well, the factor quality is perhaps the most debated, both in academia and in practice.

Invesco launches actively managed metaverse fund

Global asset manager Invesco has launched an actively managed, 30 million dollar investment fund focused on metaverse companies. The Invesco Metaverse Fund will be domiciled in Luxembourg and will be distributed to investors across Europe.

The metaverse is defined as a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users. Virtual and augmented reality has the potential to add some 1.7 billion euro to the world economy and approximately 23 million jobs by 2030, according to consultancy PwC.

DNCA Finance sees new niches emerging in sports

Boris Radondy, manager of the DNCA Global Sport Equity fund, expects strong growth in the sports sector over the next few years and believes it can present predictable long-term growth.

DNCA Finance’s integration of Ostrum Asset Management in October 2020 added a team of 21 people and 7 billion euro in assets under management, mainly in equity and convertible bond management.