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Ken Van Weyenberg

Head of Client Portfolio Management Equity

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Ken Van Weyenberg has been Head of Client Portfolio Management Fundamental Equity since 2025. Since joining Candriam in 2010, his previous roles have included Senior Client Portfolio Manager for Thematic Global Equity, Head of Client Portfolio Management for Private Clients & Asset Allocation, and Senior Investment Specialist in Private Clients & Asset Allocation. 

Before joining the asset management industry, Ken spent three years in media and financial journalism at Kanaal Z/Canal Z and Moneytalk & Cash.  

Ken holds a Bachelor’s in Journalism from Artevelde Hogeschool Gent, Belgium. 

Discover the latest articles by Ken Van Weyenberg

Equities, Geopolitics, Circular Economy, ESG, SRI, Ken Van Weyenberg, Elie El Kadi, Antoine Lensel

Can Europe build its way to energy autonomy?

Europe may be breaking its dependence on Russian fossil fuels, but energy autonomy will not be achieved by changing the energy mix alone. It will require stronger grids, greater industrial capacity and more resilient critical-material supply chains.
Ken Van Weyenberg, Quentin Duquesne, Equities, Geopolitics

European defence autonomy: rearming with purpose

For decades, European defence budgets were treated as a discretionary line item, a peace dividend to be spent elsewhere. Russia's invasion of Ukraine broke that assumption. The ensuing years featuring a less predictable transatlantic security relationship and the growing importance of cyber, drones and space have only reinforced that break.
Research Paper, Equities, Johan Van der Biest, Ken Van Weyenberg

The environmental transition

The environmental transition is no longer a distant policy ambition. It is becoming a structural economic force — reshaping energy systems, industrial value chains and resource infrastructure. As clean technologies mature and environmental pressures intensify, investors can look beyond short-term policy cycles to a multi-decade capex opportunity spanning electrification, circularity and water security.
Ken Van Weyenberg, Water, Equities, Circular Economy

The transition's next challenge: beyond clean energy

The environmental transition is often presented as a clean-energy story. However, as electrification scales, a different question is becoming more important: can the global economy secure, reuse and manage the resources needed to make the transition possible?
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