A worldwide increase in regulation on client reporting and the need to provide better service to clients are driving asset managers to look hard at
Asset Servicing
Fund managers need to get reporting houses in order
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Quintet’s Matti: UHNW clients demanding institutional-level services
Investment Officer Luxembourg recently had an opportunity to speak with Stephan Matti (pictured above), Group Head of Asset Servicing & Financial Intermediaries at Quintet Private
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Alternatives state of play
How has pandemic affected the Luxembourg alternative fund sector? What is the shake out from Brexit? Has regulatory reform in Ireland increased competition for Luxembourg
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Digitalisation pulls funds forward
Despite much talk about the cost and efficiency benefits of digitalisation and clients moving very quickly to adopt it, some parts of the fund sector
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Swiss firm buys Global Fund Analytics
Acolin, a Zurich-based provider of regulatory and cross-border fund distribution services across Europe, has acquired Luxembourg-based Global Fund Analytics (GFA), a SaaS-based data collection and
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State Street wants to be ‘Amazon of asset servicing’
Outsourcing middle office activities such as processing transactions made by asset managers’ front offices is the biggest growth market in the asset servicing business, according to State Street’s Dick Taggart. ‘We want to become the Amazon of asset management outsourcing’, he told Investment Officer.
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Allfunds plans IPO in Amsterdam
Fund platform Allfunds has announced its intention to list its shares on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange “in the coming weeks”. The announcement comes just
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Third-party ManCos evolve into ‘governance solution providers’
Luxembourg’s third-party management companies (ManCos) are increasingly positioning themselves as regulatory problem solvers for all types of asset manager. This appears to be a burgeoning niche for the Luxembourg fund and asset servicing industry.
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Fund directors rush to update ESG stance
Despite the looming EU deadline on ESG reporting, around a third of boards of UCITS funds and nearly half for alternative funds report had not
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FX specialist Monex opens Luxembourg office
The London-based foreign exchange specialist Monex has opened an office in Luxembourg to serve its EU-based clients after the Brexit transition period ends on 31
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