• A Question of Political Taxonomics

    The EU’s Regulatory Framework on Sustainability in Financial Investments: From Disclosure to Taxonomy The EU’s regulatory requirements for sustainability in financial investments have now been completed with the Taxonomy Regulation following the Disclosure Regulation. After more than 40,000 comments were received during the consultation phase, the most enlightening insights are…


  • The Road to Serfdom – Climate Change and the Open Society

    At the latest since the hastily enforcement of the Offenlegungsverordnung (EU Regulation), the topic of sustainable investment has become part of asset manager’s everyday life. No lecture, no webinar or newsletter, not even the FAZ can avoid highlighting at least one ESG aspect every day. Today, investors have a wide…


  • What the Discussion about Inflation Reveals

    The ongoing coronavirus pandemic presents us all with unprecedented social and economic challenges. Between lockdown, incidence statistics, a European vaccine disaster, the surge in the stock market and simultaneous decline in the bond market, the specter of inflation has now also taken hold. The topic is being controversially discussed in…


  • The Naked Truth

    The events that have recently taken place in the stock market have been referred to using various metaphors such as David vs. Goliath, Empire vs. Death Star, or Robin Hood vs. King John. These refer to private investors who, via the Reddit community “WallStreetBets”, organized themselves to purchase shares, especially…