"Less bad is far from good!" These words echoed for a long time in my head after a very inspiring conversation with the most well-known name in Luxembourg in the matter of “Economie Circulaire”: Mr. Romain Poulles from PROgroup. It all started quite harmlessly: a few months ago Lorenzo Bertelli, the heir to the Prada fashion group, who quit his career […] Financial 31.07.2019
Financial Newsflash : July 2019 Bond markets The main driver behind an extraordinary first half of the year 2019 has been an unexpected decline in interest rates. In fact, even the strong performance of the recovering stock markets, which had suffered from big losses towards the end of 2018, were outpaced by the falling interest rates. Just when everyone agreed […] Financial 09.07.2019
"Compliance is part of the business" With a legal/tax background (Ghent University), Herman Coppens started his career at KPMG. After that, he went on to the Generale Bank, where for more than ten years he mainly occupied tax positions. “In the late 90s I was in charge of the stock listing of property investment funds,” he explains. He moved to Petercam […] News 07.05.2019
2019 starts upwards ! Macro Context In January, the markets showed a nice rebound after a period of a slumping global stock markets in December. This phenomena showed us an extreme of both, December 2018 was one of the worst month periods for the global stock market in the last decades whereas the following month was one of the […] Financial 27.02.2019
Financial Newsflash January 2019 For the first time in many years, investors are facing negative returns as the global equity market has fallen sharply. Financial 23.01.2019
Trade war US-China? Investors looked forward to the G20 meeting last month in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The focus was not on the G20 summit itself but on the duel that took place between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jingping. The main focus was on the trade relations between those two countries. As trade war threat between the […] Financial 19.12.2018