by Callum Lawson-Gallagher | 03 November 2023 | Europe
The largest European retail fund markets made only modest recoveries in 2023 after massive declines in 2022. Investors turned towards cash and domestic products rather than third-party funds. In Spain, the share of assets managed by foreign managers reached its lowest...
by Richard Bradley | 09 June 2023 | Europe
2022 was a challenging year for the European platform market. The inexorable decade-long asset growth of the market went into reverse, as market falls hit B2B platform assets under administration, which fell to €3.6tn. Only a few groups managed to end 2022 higher than...
by Victor Garcia Priego | 30 September 2022 | Europe
“Most clients are happy to pay €1,000 for a smartphone but will never pay half that amount to get financial advice.” “A full ban on commissions would create a huge advice gap.” Again and again we’ve heard these kinds of comments from fund distributors across...
by Victor Garcia Priego | 26 November 2021 | ESG, Europe
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered unprecedented interest in ESG investing. This has highlighted a divide between the practices of large parts of the investment industry and the expectations of many environmentally and socially minded investors. There is a huge...
by Victor Garcia Priego | 10 September 2021 | Europe
The European fund industry looks as if it’s emerged unscathed from the havoc created by the COVID-19 – just looking at its buoyant figures for assets under management. But the reality is that the pandemic has accelerated several pre-existing trends that will cause...
by Victor Garcia Priego | 21 May 2021 | Europe
Allfunds’ recent stock market debut marked a noisy close to an unusually noisy period for institutional fund platforms. Recent years have seen Europe’s two large global custodians (Clearstream and Euroclear) enter the market through acquisitions of well-established...
