Over the past two decades, the Middle East has emerged as a key regional hub for international fund management. This transformation has been driven by sovereign wealth funds, high net worth individuals, family offices, and a burgeoning middle class with an increasing appetite for investment.

Private markets investing has adapted to macroeconomic and business landscape developments, but how the asset class is accessed has remained relatively unchanged. Over two decades ago, Partners Group introduced an innovative approach to accessing private markets with the launch of an evergreen fund. Evergreens are perpetual capital funds that offer investors...

With private markets retaining its attractions for institutional investors, there is now a growing desire to widen its access to a broader array of investors. Now a $13 trillion asset class, having demonstrated 20% p.a. growth over the last 5 years (Mc Kinsey, June 2023), asset managers have recently encouraged private investors to consider this area of...

Early 2024, SGSS conducted a survey among key European asset management players. The goal was to review the progress made, the projects already underway and the obstacles that remain for fund managers based in Europe’s main financial centres

Investors with a climate focus must take a holistic view of the biggest environmental challenge of our time, because adapting to climate change is just one ingredient of business sustainability and return potential. Both also hinge on a company’s strategy and execution, the macroeconomic environment, and shifting cyclical and secular trends.

Over recent years, policy makers and financial markets have been preoccupied with inflation. However, I suspect the emphasis will now switch to growth, or rather the lack of it in the United States (US). Just as the US Federal Reserve (Fed) committed a policy error in 2021 (by waiting too long to tighten), I fear it has committed the opposite error in 2024 by...

Discover how Euroclear is pioneering a paradigm shift in financial services through data-driven innovation, strategic partnerships and a client-centric mindset.

Olivier Malteste, Director of Investments at Yomoni, shares with us his vision on the emergence and growth of active ETFs.

Julien Aïdan and Amandine Bozier, product experts at Societe Generale Securities Services, explain how private debt has become the choice of the “prince” in the private market segment and present us with the challenges introduced by the regulatory environment that is strengthening on this asset class more popular among investors in a context of higher rates.

UK (and Global) asset managers are increasingly diversifying their investment strategies and actively targeting European investors as they look to accelerate fundraising amid turbulent market conditions.

Post-trade has undergone significant changes in recent years and has undoubtedly become more dynamic. Digitalization, disruptive technologies & regulations are driving this change.

Hopes are rising among investment firms that a long-awaited second iteration of the European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF2), which got the green light from regulators earlier this year will pull in more investor cash than the first version of the ELTIF launched in 2015. Michael Clifford, General Manager of Societe Generale Dublin Brach tells us more about...

Our experts Julien Aïdan and Amandine Bozier explain why 2024 can be considered a pivotal year for Private Markets funds after two consecutive years of slowdown.

Three years after the launch of the review process, the amended version of CSDR , known as CSDR Refit in reference to the eponymous European Commission's programme , came into force on 16 January 2024, 20 days after it was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

From generative AI to tokenisation, crypto, cybersecurity and sustainable development, let's take a look together at the major technological trends in finance for 2024.