BNP Paribas Asset Management

Big Data is een van de zogenaamde megatrends binnen de tech-industrie. Maar wat wordt er nu eigenlijk onder dit buzzword verstaan?

On 25 September 2015, at the UN General Assembly, 193 world leaders pledged to guarantee ‘universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all’ by 2030.

Virtual en Augmented Reality (VR en AR respectievelijk) nemen in elke beschrijving van de toekomst een prominente plek in. Deze technologieën worden al toegepast in games, maar ook het aantal andere toepassingen stijgt snel. Wat houden VR en AR eigenlijk in en hoe serieus moeten we het nemen?

Amid a growing chorus of stakeholders keen on sustainability – ranging from investors to increasingly environmentally and socially aware consumers – more and more entrepreneurs are exploring solutions that are actually sustainable and responsible.

Robotisering en automatisering veranderen in rap tempo de krachtverhoudingen binnen de wereldeconomie. Volgens senior portfoliomanager Siegfried Kok van BNP Paribas OBAM staan we aan de vooravond van een revolutie.

Not until the 10th out of Jean-Claude Juncker’s 11-page 2017 state-of-the-union speech to the European Parliament on 13 September did he mention the word Brexit. And, even then, only in very few words. But Juncker’s closing words, ‘on 30 March 2019, we will be a union of 27’, reflect a clear shift in terms of looking beyond Brexit negotiations.

Rapid demographic change, the desire to live in city centres, the rising cost of housing together with an inexorably changing urban environment have raised the profile of apartment dwelling since the near-collapse of the global financial system in 2008.

While palm oil producing plantations are not the sole cause of deforestation, they are a good place to start when it comes to taking action.

We believe recent M&A activity indicating the first major combinations of traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers with major online retailers in the US has strategic implications, not only for the US grocery industry, but across broader retail segments.

A number of global equity indices have reached historic highs in recent months. The European equity market has not done badly, but has lagged behind markets in other developed regions, notably the US. Today, however, Europe is back in investors’ good books.