
The continued power of gold
Gold maintained its role as a safe haven asset for investors in 2025 with the precious metal’s price breaking records 53 times over the year, delivering its strongest performance since 1979.

Gold maintained its role as a safe haven asset for investors in 2025 with the precious metal’s price breaking records 53 times over the year, delivering its strongest performance since 1979.

A monthly column on the global crypto markets and ETF/ETP flows, brought to you by CoinDesk Indices, Trackinsight and ETF Express.

Underperformance among active global equity managers is driving investors to seek emerging market opportunities, the latest bfinance Manager Intelligence and Market Trends report reveals.

More than three-fifths (61 per cent) of investors say technology will be the sector attracting the most investment over the next three years, well ahead of every other sector, according to PwC’s 2025 Global Investor Survey.

A monthly column on the global crypto markets and ETF/ETP flows, brought to you by CoinDesk Indices, Trackinsight and ETF Express.

Geopolitical conflicts top UK defined benefit (DB) pension funds’ list of challenges for the next six months, research from Russell Investments shows.

t was only a matter of time before the European Commission was forced to rewrite the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR) having deemed them unfit for purpose.

Creeping fears about the likelihood of an implosion in artificial intelligence (AI) and technology stocks are feeding into institutions’ overall concern for market performance next year.

Investors will plough more than EUR5 trillion of assets into European private markets by the end of 2030 with infrastructure set to capture EUR1.1 trillion of assets.

A monthly column on the global crypto markets and ETF/ETP flows, brought to you by CoinDesk Indices, Trackinsight and ETF Express.