Raymond Frenken

Raymond Frenken

Euro notes. Photo: Pixabay.
Investing
May 28, 2026

Luxembourg’s financial machine enters the AMLA era with major readiness gaps

Luxembourg’s role as Europe’s dominant cross-border fund centre may also make it one of the first…
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From left to right: Piera Elisa Grassi (JPMorgan), Tom Stephens (Schroders), Gilles Dauphiné (Amundi) and Michael Mohr (Xtrackers/DWS).
Asset Allocation
May 28, 2026

Active ETFs redraw Europe’s investment landscape

For years, European investors treated ETFs as passive building blocks and mutual funds as the…
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Karen Ward - JPM_Media_Summit
Asset Allocation
May 26, 2026

Teflon markets: why turmoil now reads as stimulus

Markets, in short, are no longer pricing peace. They are pricing managed instability.
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Madison Faller. Photo: J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Asset Allocation
May 21, 2026

JP Morgan tells wealthy clients: your cash is the risk now

Wealthy investors who built large cash buffers after the pandemic may now face a different threat…
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SpaceX Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 during an in-flight abort test. Demand for pre-IPO exposure to the company is intensifying ahead of a possible listing. Illustration: NASA/SpaceX.
Asset Allocation
May 13, 2026

Van Eck warns on opaque SpaceX trading

The rush among private clients to buy into SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic before they reach public…
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The House of Finance in Luxembourg, home to ABBL and other financial services organisations in the Grand Duchy.
Asset Servicing
May 13, 2026

ABBL warns on EU banking fragmentation

The banks the European single market was designed to enable are the ones underwriting its unfinished…
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Allvue Systems’ Richard Change and ILPA’s Emily Kisak.
Asset Allocation
May 5, 2026

Private equity’s pay machine becomes a governance test

The fees private equity managers earn on successful deals are no longer just a matter of…
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Jamie Dimon (right) in conversation with NBIM CEO Nicolas Tangen.
Asset Managers
April 30, 2026

Dimon: bond markets face forced adjustment as fiscal risks compound

Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorganChase, has warned that global bond…
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Chris Kaminker. Foto: Blackrock.
Asset Managers
April 28, 2026

Blackrock sees no shift in sustainability approach

From the 17th floor of the Rembrandt Tower in Amsterdam, Blackrock has a clear view of a market…
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Jeannette von Wolfersdorff.
Investing
April 21, 2026

Markets are pricing a world that may no longer exist

Markets are pricing a world that may no longer exist. Democratic institutions, designed for slower…
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M. Pieterse-Bloem - photo by Melanie Lemahieu
Private Banks
April 13, 2026

Investors are getting used to war. That worries Pieterse-Bloem.

The conflict in the Middle East hit financial markets less hard than expected. Rabobank strategist…
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Thomas Heinzl. Photo: Quintet.
Private Banks
April 13, 2026

Heinzl takes helm at Quintet as cost pressure defines next phase

The new chief executive of Europe’s quietly ambitious private bank starts work this week. His…
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Lucas Crasborn
Asset Allocation
April 8, 2026

Private equity shifts pressure to retail investors

Private equity’s model is coming under strain as exits slow, capital remains tied up, and investors…
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Jean-Jacques Barbéris. Photo: Amundi.
Asset Allocation
April 2, 2026

Asset owners push asset managers back into net zero alliance

Asset owners representing 3.7 trillion dollars in capital sent a clear message to their asset…
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