Equity

Global investors have regained a strongly bullish stance on the outlook for equity markets in the second half of 2014, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for July.

Today we proudly announce that ING Bank has started offering Sprinters based on the NL20 Index. The products will be tradable as of 16 June 2014 and will offer the possibility to profit from leveraged participation in the price movement of the NL20 Index.

Etienne Vincent, head of THEAM’s global quantitative management, explains how the four main recurring sources of outperformance in the equity markets, extensively developed in the “smart beta” concept, can be likened to the four cardinal virtues described by Plato, the Greek philosopher.

The crisis in Ukraine has global markets on edge—and investors fear that deflation could prove a long-term problem for the Eurozone. What matters most, though, is an objective look at economic and financial data.

We are not surprised to see the market become more challenging.The trend towards a more selective market has continued to play out. We continue to expect the M&A environment to be robust...