Oct 19, 2018 8:41 AM | Daily Market News

Wall Street closed with losses, burdened by concerns about interest rates and growth, and Asian stock markets followed the negative trend. While the US corporate reporting season is in focus, latest US economic data confirmed the strong state of the US economy and fed concerns about rapidly rising interest rates with the Fed minutes published the previous evening. On Europe's stock markets, concerns about Italy's financial situation dampened sentiment on the floor yesterday. The ECB's cautious bias toward an interest rate turnaround, despite the announcement to end its billion-dollar bond purchase program probably at the end of this year, weakened the euro significantly. The ECB maintained its key interest rate at a record low and remained extremely cautious in its communication. At the same time, the Bank of Japan also left its key interest rates unchanged and even lowered its inflation expectations.

Oct 18, 2018 8:45 AM | Daily Market News

On Wall Street and Asia, stock markets were dominated above all by persistent interest rate concerns. The FOMC minutes seem to have strengthened investors' concerns about interest rates. The agreement within the Fed's monetary policy council seems to show a clear tendency towards further interest rate hikes. A fourth interest rate hike in the current year is now being priced into the interest rate futures market for December with a probability of 81.4% compared with 78.5% the previous day. The ECB's cautious bias toward an interest rate turnaround, despite the announcement to end its billion-dollar bond purchase program probably at the end of this year, weakened the euro significantly. The ECB maintained its key interest rate at a record low and remained extremely cautious in its communication. At the same time, the Bank of Japan also left its key interest rates unchanged and even lowered its inflation expectations.

Oct 17, 2018 8:48 AM | Daily Market News

Against the backdrop of the corporate reporting season that has just started, stock markets were able to pick up on the friendly start to the week and wipe off concerns about the trade dispute or the debt crisis in Italy. Nevertheless, the almost 200 analysts and professional investors surveyed by the Mannheim Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) assessed the economic outlook for Germany much more cautiously. The ECB's cautious bias toward an interest rate turnaround, despite the announcement to end its billion-dollar bond purchase program probably at the end of this year, weakened the euro significantly. The ECB maintained its key interest rate at a record low and remained extremely cautious in its communication. At the same time, the Bank of Japan also left its key interest rates unchanged and even lowered its inflation expectations.

Oct 4, 2018 3:57 PM | Global market outlook and strategy

The financial industry has long pondered the question of whether active or passive investing is better for a portfolio. It is hotly disputed which strategy is superior. Which is why the focus of the debate should be on the question of how an investor best combines the two philosophies across an investment cycle.

Oct 1, 2018 10:57 AM | Company news

LGT acquired a USD 25 million stake in the Chinese investment bank China Renaissance when the company successfully went public on 27 September. The private banking and asset management group of the Princely House of Liechtenstein is one of three cornerstone investors in the business, which focuses on Asia’s strong new economy sectors.