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Making portfolios more resilient - whatever the weather

Market turbulence since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has provided a stress test for investors’ portfolios. Lessons learnt in 2020 are sound pointers on how to further optimise portfolios...

Author: Victor Bemmann, Universal-Investment

Destination future: Innovation is our driver

Driverless cars, the Alexa and Siri voice assistants and smart fridges - innovations have long since found their way into our private households. The financial services sector has also witnessed...

Author: Daniel Andemeskel, Jochen Meyers and Andreas Gessinger, Universal-Investment

Private equity: developments and trends in the age of Covid-19

Covid-19 is on the verge of becoming yesterday’s news: despite the pandemic, investors are continuing to show a strong appetite for alternatives and in particular private equity. That said, the...

Author: Dr. Sofia Harrschar, Universal-Investment

Sustainability – more than one strategy can achieve your objective

At fund level, ESG strategies such as “best in class” or exclusions based on certain criteria indicate how sustainability can be incorporated in the investment process. The UN’s Sustainable...

Author: Robert Bluhm, Universal-Investment

All is in flux

Managing assets - for asset managers as well as institutional investors – is becoming increasingly challenging. The complexity of investment portfolios is growing as are demands for flexibility,...

Author: Matthias Biedenkapp, Universal-Investment-Labs

We’re working on the future: unbiased data in real-time

YUKKA Lab is working with Universal-Investment on a ESG sentiment analysis based on machine learning (ML). Information about the ESG conformity of companies is determined from high-quality online...

Author: Andreas Pusch, YUKKA Lab

Spotlight on Matthias Biedenkapp

Matthias Biedenkapp is Managing Director of Universal-Investment-Labs (UI labs), a leading IT service provider and software developer for front-office solutions in the financial industry....

Author: Matthias Biedenkapp is Managing Director of Universal-Investment-Labs

The Evolution of a Natural Resources Fund

Natural resources have accompanied the development of mankind since the Stone Age. Nowadays, the extraction of natural resources often comes under fire, largely because of sustainability issues....

Author: Dr. Joachim Berlenbach und Dr. Pereshia Berlenbach, Earth Resource Investments

Between the corona crisis and strong growth

The market for alternative investments has grown rapidly in recent years. But how has this trend been affected by the corona crisis? Dr. Sofia Harrschar, Head of Alternative Investments, and Axel...

Author: Dr. Sofia Harrschar and Axel Vespermann, Universal-Investment

There’s no time to lose

Investors are focusing on sustainability more than ever. Dustin Neuneyer, Head of Germany & Austria, PRI, explains why time is running out.

CAPinside solves the matching crisis in the German investment market

A “perfect match” after an extensive search: in summer 2020, Universal-Investment acquired the online platform CAPinside. Universal-Investment will thus create wide-ranging distribution...

Author: Markus Hujara, CAPinside

Liquidity buffers as preventive crisis management

Unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic, capital market turbulence in March 2020 was a wake-up call for financial market regulators and the fund industry as a whole. Some investment funds were hit...

Author: Dr. André Jäger, Universal-Investment