Though the Italian economy is still on stand-by, shrinking 0.1% in 2014, asset management in the country is booming. International asset managers are therefore planning a marketing offensive in the country, according to a survey conducted by Cerulli.
The extent to which an investment fund’s portfolio deviates from its benchmark matters, say delegates at Expert Investor Europe’s Pan-European Congress in Rome.
Private investors in the Netherlands and Sweden are much more comfortable with risk-taking than their counterparts in the rest of Europe.
Net inflows into mutual funds by Spanish and Italian investors spiked in the first eight months of 2014
Prometeia’s Daniele Ceroni is trying to cope with the low-yield environment in the bond market by both taking more risk and by buying more absolute return
Luigi Sottile, head of discretionary portfolio management for Deutsche Bank in Italy, tells why he has increased the duration of his bond portfolio.
Italian fund buyers will increase their exposure to alternative equity products over the next 12 months.
Emerging market government bond sentiment among Italian fund selectors has witnessed a spectacular revival since autumn last year.
Flows into absolute return funds have reached a new high in the first five months of this year.
Milan-based fund selectors had surprisingly strong views on Japanese equities when our researcher came over to visit them this spring.
Milan-based fund selectors had surprisingly strong views on Japanese equities when our researcher came over to visit them this spring.
Italys fund selectors have been flirting with emerging market debt before, but now seem to be going all the way.
