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July 19, 2022

‘Analysts overly upbeat on corporate profits’

Barely seven of the first 35 companies in the US S&P 500 index to release their second-quarter…
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July 19, 2022

Modern pension funds embrace ESG as ‘good ancestors’

Social responsibility, sustainability, ESG and SRI are more than buzzwords for the world’s leading…
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Vianden castle in Luxembourg. Photo via Unsplash.
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July 18, 2022

Fitch affirms AAA rating for Luxembourg

Ratings agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed its assessment of Luxembourg’s government debt with a ‘AAA…
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ECB President Christine Lagarde and Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, pictured at a 2015 IMF meeting. Photo: IMF.
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July 18, 2022

Crisis in Italy brings back fears of eurozone crisis

The eurozone looks increasingly weak. The euro slipped to parity with the dollar last week and a…
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July 5, 2022

First German trade deficit in 31 years shows EU’s vulnerability

Germany has unexpectedly reported its first trade deficit since 1991. The reversal of the trade…
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Asset Managers
July 4, 2022

BMO GAM Emea rebrands as Columbia Threadneedle

US asset manager Columbia Threadneedle on Monday said it has completed the rebranding of the…
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July 1, 2022

‘Lack of taxonomy harmonisation leads to fragmentation’

The sustainable fund market in Luxembourg and other European fund domiciles has continued its strong…
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LuxCMA debate on green securitisation
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June 28, 2022

Green securitisation struggles to find foothold

Green securitisation is struggling to find a foothold, it became clear at a recent LuxCMA conference…
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June 16, 2022

Federal Reserve attacks inflation with 75bp rate hike

The US central bank on Wednesday evening announced t that it would raise the benchmark interest rate…
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Luxembourg's freeport. Photo: Lux-hsh.com
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June 14, 2022

Luxembourg freezes €210 mln in Russian freeport assets

Assets worth over 200 million euros stored at Luxembourg’s freeport, formally known as High-Security…
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June 13, 2022

War, economic downturn hurt fund sales

Firms selling Ucits and alternative investment funds are experiencing a downturn linked to the dire…
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Hillary Clinton at the 2022 Amundi World Investment Forum in Paris.
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June 10, 2022

'We are in a struggle between authoritarianism and democracy'

Hillary Clinton, former US State Secretary, took the stage on Friday at the 2022 Amundi World…
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SES headquarters in Luxembourg. Photo: SES.
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June 8, 2022

SES launches 750 mln euro in unsecured notes

Luxembourg’s SES SA, which likes to describe itself as the world’s only multi-orbit satellite player…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is seen speaking on a screen above World Bank Group President David Malpass at the World Bank Group 2022 Spring Meetings Ministerial Roundtable for Support to Ukraine on 21 April 2022. Photo: Paul Blake / WorldBank
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June 8, 2022

World Bank warns of 1970s-style stagflation

The World Bank on Tuesday warned that the global economy is facing a 1970s-style stagflation with a…
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