On October 31, 2019, Mario Draghi's term as President of the ECB will come to an end. Even though Mario Draghi's personality has had a profound impact on the way the ECB communicates and therefore acts, it is important to point out that it is a small team within the ECB Executive Board that has led the major changes in the monetary policy since 2011/2012...

Marie-Laure Faller is appointed Chief Executive Officer of Natixis Asset Management Finance – Natixis' intermediation services and solutions platform – effective from February 8, 2019. She will take over from Olivier Houix who has been appointed Deputy Head of Natixis Investment Managers' Internal Audit team.

BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM') announces the appointment of Sylvain Ghisoni as Country Sales Head for France, within the Global Client Group, its worldwide Sales and Marketing organisation. He will report to Fabien Madar, Co-Head of Distribution Europe. Sylvain will join BNPP AM on 21 January and will be based in Paris.

After President Trump signed the 'Tax Cuts and Jobs Act' into law on 22 December 2017, we expected corporate earnings growth to be strong in 2018. In fact, it has been far stronger, as the direct effect of the tax cut on corporate earnings was further magnified by the acceleration in economic growth.

ETFGI reported that ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$76.24 Bn during December. Despite the turmoil witnessed in developed markets during December, ETFs and ETPs listed globally attracted the 2nd highest net inflow on record, rivalled only by January 2018, which saw inflows of US$105.70 Bn.