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CSSF ‘needs to intervene’ to shore-up Luxembourg’s reputation after ‘grossly negligent’ actions by Sicav fund directors
Swiss-headquartered Bank J. Safra Sarasin has announced a new brand for its asset management activities to allow a stronger focus on the needs and expectations of institutional clients.
JP Morgan Asset Management has appointed Claude Kurzo to head its Switzerland operations after Patrick Beuret resigned after three years.
The depreciation of the US dollar led to European investors lagging behind their US and Latin American counterparts in terms of performance in 2017 despite making the right call about being overweight European equities, according to Natixis Investment Managers. Click through the gallery to find out what asset allocation looked like for European, US, and…
Zürcher Kantonalbank Group’s (ZKB’s) asset management arm, Swisscanto has launched an emerging markets currency bond fund that aims to provide yield in the current low interest rate environment.
The Swiss regulator has wrapped up its Panama Papers investigation with a slap on the wrist for one Russian bank.
What do Swiss fund buyers think of all the major asset classes?
Plans to scrap a class of anonymous shares in Switzerland could deal another blow to the country’s traditionally secret banking practices.
A poll from German asset manager Union Investment has found that German institutional investors are more than three times as risk-averse as their peers in neighbouring countries, with 72% of Germans considering ‘safety’ the most important criterion when making investment decisions.
Swiss private banks are failing to address rapidly declining profitability and are too focused on defensive measures to implement a radical transformation that will allow them to generate competitive advantage and sustainable growth, says KPMG.
Following the French elections, investors have swapped actively managed single country equity funds for index trackers.
The cyclically adjusted P/E ratio of the S&P 500 is at its highest level since 2004. What does that say about return prospects for US equities going forward? Gabriel Bartholdi, head of asset allocation at Swiss consultancy firm Wellershoff & Partners, gives his view.