Financial knowledge

The world of ETFs has grown pretty large and colourful: there are products on standard indices, on trending themes or on so-called factors. Choosing from what are now hundreds of ETFs is correspondingly tricky. It is more convenient to delegate the selection.

The ECB is setting the course for a digital euro. But what does that actually mean? And how does the digital euro differ from crypto assets like Bitcoin? Seven questions and answers.

Over the past few months, the capital markets and the financial press have once again been speculating about a supposedly imminent turn in interest rates. We simply don't join in. Because bonds are, quite simply, a consistently important component of our global portfolios.

Investing actively in equities essentially means deliberately picking individual stocks or trying to find the supposedly best times to get in and out. Those who, like quirion, invest in ETFs instead take a “passive” approach based on stock market indices. But that doesn't mean all the thinking is done and the work is quickly finished. quirion's forecast-free strategy demands a great deal of activity.

Behavioral finance tracks down the psychological traps of investing. Prof. Dr. Olaf Stotz of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management explains which cognitive biases prove especially costly – and how to avoid them.

Over 100 million US dollars: that’s the valuation the operator of a single food shop in the US reached on the stock market. Balance sheets and financial metrics can’t explain developments like this. All the more reason to rely on scientifically grounded investing.