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What do German fund buyers think of all the major asset classes?
What do German fund buyers think of all the major asset classes?
European asset managers’ appetite for equities is at its highest since March 2015 with the majority of fund managers responding to Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s latest fund manager survey reporting an overweight allocation despite seeing the asset class as expensive.
Here is a selection of photos taken at Expert Investor Deutschland, held in Frankfurt on 25 October 2017.
Here is a selection of photos taken at the Expert Investor Deutschland forum, held in Munich on 24 October 2017.
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.
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Many fund managers dismissed the historical German election results as “insignificant for markets”. But they fail to take into account the fact that these elections have upended the status quo, possibly triggering a reversal of recent political trends.
You may be forgiven for not staying up late this Sunday to watch the final results of Germany’s parliamentary elections come in. While Chancellor Merkel is sure to win, the scale of her victory is likely to impact the future direction of bond spreads.
German investors are laggards when it comes to sustainable investing compared to most of their peers in surrounding counties. They are catching up, but still have some work to do.
Willi Oberbeck, a fund selector at DZ PRIVATBANK, tells why he already started using alternative Ucits funds more than six years ago, long before demand for absolute returns started to really heat up.
ESG funds are fast becoming a staple that caters for the appetite of Northern European investors. But in the centre of Europe’s automotive industry, Bavaria, investors are not quite as bothered with sustainability.
Here you can see a selection of photos taken at Expert Investor Deutschland in Munich on 25th October 2016.