Raymond Frenken

Raymond Frenken

Oaklins Netherlands is buying Luxembourg-based family office Andreas Capital.
Family Offices
June 26, 2026

Oaklins buys Andreas Capital to expand in family wealth

Oaklins Netherlands is acquiring multi-family office Andreas Capital, a move that will allow the M&A…
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Europese vlag in Straatsburg. Photo: Philippe Buissin, EU.
Supervision
June 25, 2026

Fault lines visible as EU gears up for market supervision push

Europe’s plans to centralize capital markets supervision are sharpening tensions inside the EU…
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Guy Stear, head of developed markets strategy at the Amundi Investment Institute. Photo: Amundi.
Investing
June 25, 2026

New AI phase may favor Europe, says Amundi

Europe’s long-discounted equity market may gain a new growth argument as artificial intelligence…
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Anneka Treon on investing in Europe: "If you miss 25 years of compounding your wealth through investments, that really starts to hurt." Photo: Jeremy Fdida/Amundi.
Private Banks
June 22, 2026

ING takes market-by-market approach to European wealth expansion

ING is not rolling out a single wealth management model for the whole of Europe. Instead, the Dutch…
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Philippe Aghion - Amundi
Investing
June 17, 2026

Aghion says Europe must stop fighting yesterday’s battles

Europe risks focusing on the wrong problems in its race to remain competitive, Nobel Prize-winning…
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Former Federal Reserve Governor James Bullard (left) in discussion with former ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet - Amundi
Investing
June 16, 2026

Trichet warns against abandoning 2 percent inflation anchor

For more than a decade, the dollar, euro, yen and sterling have shared a common definition of price…
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Football - Heitor Vitar - Pexel
Asset Allocation
June 10, 2026

Football is emerging as an investment market

Football is attracting growing interest from private equity firms, lenders and other institutional…
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Peter Vogel, head of the Global Family Business Center at IMD Business School in Lausanne. Photo: IMD.
Private Banks
June 3, 2026

Peter Vogel: ‘Most wealthy families don’t know how their wealth is performing’

Family offices are often portrayed as sophisticated investment organizations with access to elite…
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Emily Whiting. Photo: JP Morgan AM.
Asset Allocation
June 2, 2026

Asia is no longer just an emerging-markets trade

India may be under pressure from higher energy costs and geopolitical tensions, but investors should…
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Euro notes. Photo: Pixabay.
Investing
May 28, 2026

Luxembourg’s financial machine enters the AMLA era with major readiness gaps

Luxembourg’s role as Europe’s dominant cross-border fund centre may also make it one of the first…
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From left to right: Piera Elisa Grassi (JPMorgan), Tom Stephens (Schroders), Gilles Dauphiné (Amundi) and Michael Mohr (Xtrackers/DWS).
Asset Allocation
May 28, 2026

Active ETFs redraw Europe’s investment landscape

For years, European investors treated ETFs as passive building blocks and mutual funds as the…
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Karen Ward - JPM_Media_Summit
Asset Allocation
May 26, 2026

Teflon markets: why turmoil now reads as stimulus

Markets, in short, are no longer pricing peace. They are pricing managed instability.
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Madison Faller. Photo: J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Asset Allocation
May 21, 2026

JP Morgan tells wealthy clients: your cash is the risk now

Wealthy investors who built large cash buffers after the pandemic may now face a different threat…
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SpaceX Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 during an in-flight abort test. Demand for pre-IPO exposure to the company is intensifying ahead of a possible listing. Illustration: NASA/SpaceX.
Asset Allocation
May 13, 2026

Van Eck warns on opaque SpaceX trading

The rush among private clients to buy into SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic before they reach public…
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