Tag: Investment companies
Despite the slump in profits, DWS is aiming for a higher dividend
DWS in Frankfurt The fund subsidiary is currently paying a lot for lawyers and court proceedings. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt The profit of the Deutsche Bank subsidiary DWS fell last year…
Investor attacks Pfandbriefbank: “Significant strategic weaknesses”
Frankfurt The activist investor Petrus Advisers, who has made a name for himself in Germany with commitments at Comdirect, Aareal Bank and Teamviewer, is now taking on the real estate…
Norwegian sovereign wealth fund makes a loss of 152 billion euros
Nicolai Tangen The chief fund manager attributes the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund’s record losses to the war in Europe, inflation and higher interest rates. (Photo: via REUTERS) Oslo The weakening…
World’s largest sovereign wealth fund makes record loss of 152 billion euros
Nicolai Tangen The chief fund manager attributes the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund’s record losses to the war in Europe, inflation and higher interest rates. (Photo: via REUTERS) Oslo The weakening…
Cathie Wood is facing her best month ever
Cathie Wood Of the 28 individual stocks that the tech investor’s fund recently held, only eight made profits. (Photo: Bloomberg) Dusseldorf In recent years, the flagship fund of tech investor…
Cathie Wood is facing her best month ever
Cathie Wood Of the 28 individual stocks that the tech investor’s fund recently held, only eight made profits. (Photo: Bloomberg) Dusseldorf In recent years, the flagship fund of tech investor…
Real estate investments in the footsteps of Harald Quandt
Construction of apartment buildings in Atlanta CP Capital, under a different name at the time, has been active as a real estate investor in the USA since 1989. (Photo: Bloomberg)…
Investors are demanding more women and foreigners in the executive bodies
Dusseldorf It is no longer just politics that is increasing the pressure on German companies to ensure more diversity in their top committees with legal requirements such as the women’s…
Balance sheet scandal raises doubts about investor Jorge Paulo Lemann
Salvador Perhaps Brazil’s biggest accounting fraud scandal in history began on January 11 this year with a sober resignation announcement: Sergio Rial, CEO of retailer Americanas SA, announced that he…
How wealth managers turn themselves into henchmen of dictators
Global trends Handelsblatt International correspondent Torsten Riecke analyzes interesting data and trends from all over the world in his weekly column. You can reach him at [email protected] (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy)…
Managers of open-ended real estate funds are optimistic about 2023 despite concerns
Vacancy in Berlin The trend reversal on the real estate market also affects open-ended real estate funds. (Photo: Imago) Dusseldorf The trend reversal on the real estate market in 2022…
Financial investor McWin takes over restaurant chain L’Osteria
The restaurant chain L’Osteria They “strongly believe” that L’Osteria has the potential to become the market-leading restaurant group in Europe, said Henry McGovern, founding partner at McWin. (Photo: L’Osteria) Frankfurt…
WSJ Announces Activist Investor Elliott’s Entry into Salesforce
Salesforce The software provider is currently suffering from collapsing sales figures and the departure of several managers. (Photo: Reuters) san francisco Activist investor Elliott Management Corp. has, according to a…
How pension funds and insurers were able to invest billions in real estate junk bonds
Luxembourg The fund service providers create shell companies with cryptic names for the business. (Photo: new-horizons.eu/ddp images) Zurich They are among the riskiest interest-bearing securities on the market: subordinated debt…
Activist shareholders are making a comeback in 2023
Frankfurt The calm should finally be over in 2023 – activist investors are preparing a new wave of campaigns against listed companies. Management and supervisory boards must be prepared for…
How pension funds and insurers were able to invest billions in real estate junk bonds
Luxembourg The fund service providers create shell companies with cryptic names for the business. (Photo: new-horizons.eu/ddp images) Zurich They are among the riskiest interest-bearing securities on the market: subordinated debt…
How investors in Davos deal with the former investment trend
Larry Fink The Blackrock CEO has also been the target of personal attacks. (Photo: Bloomberg) davos For a long time it was the biggest trend in the financial world: investing…
Verius Capital: Real estate fund worth billions under pressure
New buildings in Berlin When granting real estate loans, banks became more and more cautious. Real estate funds have closed this gap. (Photo: IMAGO/Schöning) Zurich, Frankfurt Investors received the bad…
Investor wants profitable medium-sized companies for new fund
Founding team of Flex Capital Felix Haas, Jan Becker, Robert Wuttke, Christoph Jost, Peter Waleczek and Andreas Etten (from left) lead the Berlin private equity fund. Berlin The very first…
This is how wealth managers look at the markets
How are the markets in Europe developing? The view becomes friendlier again. davos It was just a few months ago that US investors were primarily concerned with the worst-case scenarios:…