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Tickets for the fund market: fund data and documents

Data on the target market, Key Investor Information Documents (KIIDs), fact sheets... the wealth of fund information has grown due to regulatory requirements. Universal-Investment uses the service...

Four questions for Aneta Pilch, branch manager in Krakow

St Mary's Church, the old Jewish quarter Kazimierz, Royal Castle Wawel: Krakow offers a mixture of culture, leisure activities, impressive architecture and even a small, authentic jazz scene. The...

Author: Aneta Pilch

China’s hidden investment jewels

The trade dispute between China and the US is dominating the headlines and thus often the actions of investors. Rowan Francis, fund manager of TAMAC, explains in this commentary why it is...

Author: Rowan Francis

Facts Rather than Fake News and Forecasts

In New York, on the top floor of a prewar building on 57th Street, with a view of Central Park, you will find the head office of Keppler Asset Management Inc, an investment advisor specialised in...

Author: Michael Keppler

EM Corporate Debt an allocation for uncertain times?

After a relatively poor 2018, returns in Emerging Markets Corporate Debt have bounced back year to date. Returns have been strong across both sovereign and corporate hard currency bonds. The...

Author: Sune Jensen, Toke Hjortshøj and Yvonne Raßbach

Gold: safe haven and inflation hedge

What some people drink in Champagne or wear around their décolleté, others own in stock deposits – it’s all about the precious metal gold. Investors keep asking themselves whether physical gold or...

Author: Georges Lequime und Yvonne Raßbach

Sought after: convertible bonds offering sustainability

The roots of the independent asset manager and convertible bond specialist Salm-Salm & Partners go back more than 800 years to the Prinz Salm vineyard. Even back then, sustainability was an...

Author: Constantin Prinz zu Salm-Salm and Yvonne Raßbach

Focus on quality stocks

Denmark has more on offer than just LEGO and the Vikings: Maj Invest the independent investment boutique from Kopenhagen, is managing some USD 10bn. Thereof USD 6bn are being managed in their...

Author: Kurt Kara, Maj Invest

Value shares: where now?

They are fast, unstoppable and they have their finger on the pulse of new technological developments: digitally driven companies such as AirBNB, Amazon and streaming services such as Spotify are...

Author: Dr, Hendrik Leber and Yvonne Raßbach

We harvest the high spreads from quality companies

Absalon Capital, a Danish investment boutique, started as an asset manager for global corporate bonds in 2015. In the same year, they launched two UCITS funds with the help of Universal-Investment...

Author: Klaus Blaabjerg and Toke Katborg Hjortshøj

Fundamental data plays a decisive role

Danish investment boutique Maj Invest is committed to classic value investing. The guiding principles of Benjamin Graham and David Dodd are the most important base for any investment. Talking to...

Author: Kurt Kara, Ulrik Jensen and Timo Lüllau-Mortensen

Credit risk free return opportunities

XAIA Investment is specialised on alternative credit strategies. The Munich-based firm uses credit default swaps (CDS) to generate risk premiums in the credit market. In the interview with...

Author: Ulrich von Altenstadt and Timo Lüllau