Opinion

Opinion
April 25, 2024

Loan origination funds; exploring the evolving framework

Loan origination activities under the EU’s second Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive…
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Opinion
April 24, 2024

Luxembourg’s fund industry needs a front office

“Fund managers are making record bonuses” is a headline often heard in London, Frankfurt, and Paris…
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Opinion
April 22, 2024

The 5 percent rule!

At the time of writing, the “mother of all equity indices,” the S&P 500 Index, is down a significant…
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Marc Meyers and Sebastiaan Hooghiemstra of Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg
Opinion
April 17, 2024

Part II UCIs: The ELTIF Fund Regime of choice?

Fund sponsors increasingly explore ways to facilitate access by retail investors to private assets…
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Opinion
April 16, 2024

Geopolitical Risks

In the financial markets, geopolitical risks often exhibit a binary nature: for a long time, they…
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Opinion
April 15, 2024

Supply in bonds and equities

This week, the following chart from the Financial Times caught my attention. It shows the net…
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Opinion
April 11, 2024

Dora is ‘around the corner’

The first quarter of 2024 has lapsed and there are only less than three quarters to go for the…
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Opinion
April 10, 2024

Animal spirits

Money’s gotta move—it’s the backbone of our economy, and the speed at which it zips around, known as…
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Dr Sofia Harrschar, country head Luxembourg, Universal Investment. Photo: UI.
Asset Allocation
April 9, 2024

Alternatives continue dynamic growth

Sofia Harrschar, head of alternative investments & structuring at Universal Investment, delves into…
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Investing
April 8, 2024

We don’t want growth!

Growth has turned into our modern-day holy grail—a beacon that politicians, companies, and…
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Opinion
April 4, 2024

Asset managers don’t come to Luxembourg for the weather

Sparked by a thought-provoking piece from Gregory Kennedy, the debate about Luxembourg as an…
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Investing
April 2, 2024

Repeat offender

France reported a few weeks ago that its already exorbitant budget deficit of 4.9 per cent of French…
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Sector
March 27, 2024

Parts of the fund industry need urgent restructuring

Every now and then, my development team informs me that they need to take a pause from future…
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Opinion
March 26, 2024

It’s ECB watchers time!

As the last vestiges of winter’s chill give way to the vibrant blooms of spring, the financial…
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