On March 5, 2024, LSEG Lipper announced the winners of the prestigious LSEG Lipper Fund Awards Europe 2024 at the famous Underglobe in London. This in-person event gathered investment professionals from all over Europe who wanted to celebrate their success over the last three, five, and 10 years with the other winners, industry experts, and journalists. Looking backward, it can be concluded that the last five years were very challenging for all types of investors. Starting with the market turmoil in Q4 2018, the COVID-19 pandemic with lockdowns, disrupted delivery chains, quantitative easing measures taken by central banks around the

On May 8, 2023, Refinitiv Lipper unveiled the results of the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards for Europe. Like previous years, the award ceremony was not held as a physical in-person event. Since the last five years were a very challenging period for fund managers globally, the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards will get a lot of attention from the asset management industry since only those managers who were able to adapt their portfolios permanently to new market environments will receive a Refinitiv Lipper Fund Award in 2023.  Different methodologies lead to different results Contrary to what a number of market observers would

It was not surprising that March 2023 was in general a positive month for the European fund industry given the rather positive revisions of the economic outlooks for the major economies globally and a possible end of the interest hiking cycle of central banks in the near future. That said, mutual fund promoters (-€2.0 bn) faced outflows, while ETF promoters (+€13.0 bn) enjoyed inflows. The outflows from actively managed funds were driven by outflows from mixed-assets products (-€13.7 bn). Within the current market environment, it is somewhat surprising that European investors sold mixed-assets products since these products were European investors

On April 13, 2023, Refinitiv Lipper unveiled the results of the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards for France. Like previous years, the award ceremony was not held as a physical in-person event. Since the last five years were a very challenging period for fund managers globally, the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards will get a lot of attention from the asset management industry since only those managers who were able to adapt their portfolios permanently to new market environments will receive a Refinitiv Lipper Fund Award in 2023. Different methodologies lead to different results Contrary to what a number of market observers

The European fund industry faced estimated net outflows of €58.3 bn in Q1 2019. These outflows came after the first year with estimated net outflows since 2012. The flows were mainly driven by the discussions about a possible trade war between the U.S. and China, a possible return of the Euro crisis caused by developments in Italy and France, an environment of rising interest rates in the U.S., and a general economic slowdown with decreasing earnings at the company level. Nevertheless, since the equity markets showed a rebound over the course of Q1 2019, one would have expected to see