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Carry opportunities (or not) in an environment of rising prices and tapering

In the current scenario of rising inflation, what are fixed income managers doing? Several of them explained at a breakfast meeting organized by FundsPeople and sponsored by SPDR ETF of State Street Global Advisor (SSGA).

Investment in intangible assets and its effect on the Spanish economy

We have known for decades about Spain's long-term growth problem and how this problem is rooted in low labor productivity.

MAPFRE Gestión Patrimonial celebrates 5 years on the market with returns of up to 70%

MAPFRE Gestión Patrimonial (MAPFRE AM, also known as MAPFRE Gestión Patrimonial or MGP in Spanish) is MAPFRE’s unit that offers financial investment solutions to its clients, enabling their savings to grow.

“The new Covid restrictions are having a significant psychological effect on investors”

More and more countries are enacting new restrictions due to the increase in Covid cases. Some experts are already predicting an impact on the economy that will obviously be passed on to the markets.

MAPFRE AM participates in the CAPCorp Congress together with the world’s largest private equity funds

MAPFRE AM–the MAPFRE Group’s asset management unit–participates in major industry events together with the largest venture capital funds, such as Carlyle and Tikehau Capital.

Central banks walk a tightrope amid need to curb inflation, boost the economy

The markets have been closely monitoring the development of inflation and the central banks’ response to it for months, an issue that raised its head once again this Monday with the announcement of Jerome Powell's re-election as chair of the US Federal Reserve.

Teresa Sales, MAPFRE Asset Management advisor, wins ‘MasterChef of finance’

“It’s like the MasterChef of finance.” This is how Vicente Varó, director of content, communication and Community Management at Finect, describes the “Top Advisor” contest organized by this financial platform, which aims to connect savers with the best financial advisors.

Monetary policy in the time of a pandemic: the new challenge for the emerging economies

An old friend of economists —who had been lurking around for some time— has become the main protagonist of the post-pandemic economic recovery: inflation. In recent months, the global economy has been characterized by upward pressure on prices that is more or less widespread, placing inflation above the target of central banks in many cases.

“If we compare the Ibex with the rest of the European markets, it still has a lot of upside potential”

The IBEX 35 has not shown a clear direction in recent months and has been closing for some weeks in very narrow bands around 9,000 points, but by lifting our gaze a bit and observing the rest of the European trading floors, it can be estimated that it has a long way to go.