An: 2017

Date: 23rd June 2017 Blackrock, the American global investment corporation acquired a €30 million stake in the European Robo-Investor Scalable Capital. The giant asset manager joins two others investors, Holtzbrink and Tengelman, in the last funding round by Scalable Capital. In 2015, Blackrock bought the US Robo-Investor FutureAdvisor which also

Date: 19th June 2017 In a letter addressed to the German Federal Minister of Economy and Energy, the Foundation expresses its disappointment regarding the absence of an answer to the letter sent to the Federal Minister in April 2017. As a reminder, the Stichting Volkswagen Investors Claim represents German and

Date: 16th June 2017 Sustainable Finance is the 2017 trend in Finance …but green bonds, ESG, SRI…are still concepts very much subject to questions and doubts regarding their definition and standards. However, despite this lack of definitions, Sustainable Finance seems to attract more and more investors. In a survey realized

Date: 14th June 2017 A new regulation raising standards for investment managers entered into force last week in the US, protecting investors and worrying active assets managers. Drawn up by the Obama Administration, this new fiduciary rule applies to the $16tn retirement investment market and is expected to spell the

Date: 8th June 2017 While voters are called upon to vote today in the UK to provide (or not) Theresa May with a strong majority government for the up-coming negotiations with the EU, asset managers seem increasingly worried about the access to investors in the EU when the UK finally

Date: 8th June 2017 Writing in Financial Times, Renaud De Planta, chairman of Pictect Asset Management, warns that passive investing could threaten the free-market economy. As a reminder, passive investing can be defined as an investment strategy that aims to maximize returns over the long run by keeping the amount

Date: 23rd May 2017 The Regulation 2017/826 of 17 May 2017 establishing a Union programme to support specific activities enhancing the involvement of consumers and other financial services end-users in Union policy-making in the area of financial services for the period of 2017-2020 was published on Friday 19 May. This

Date: 19th May 2017 President Trump is not the only threat to the USA. According to an academic study (The Hoover Institution, Stanford Graduate School of Business), the US public pension system has developed a $3.4tn funding hole. The study reveals that some states (Illinois, Arizona, Ohio and Nevada) and