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Opinion
February 22, 2024

A new eurocrisis

This year commemorates the 25th anniversary of the euro, but the festivities are notably absent. In…
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Laws and Regulations
February 21, 2024

CSSF fines Mizuho nearly half a million euro for breaches

Luxembourg’s CSSF financial regulator on 20 February announced that in late 2023, it had imposed a…
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Joan Solotar, global head of private wealth solutions at Blackstone.
Asset Managers
February 21, 2024

Blackstone’s Solotar foresees structural shift to private credit

Interest in investing in private markets, private credit in particular, may have surged, but that…
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Freddy Forger, founder and partner at Stoic.
Asset Managers
February 21, 2024

‘We are behavioural psychologists rather than asset managers’

To become content, one must liberate themselves from emotions. Amsterdam-based asset manager Stoic…
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Marc Meyers and Sebastiaan Hooghiemstra at LooyensLoeff Luxembourg.
Sector
February 21, 2024

Eltif 2 Matchmaking: New opportunities for secondary markets

On 19 December 2023, the European Securities and Markets Authority, Esma, published its final report…
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Belgium's finance ministers Vincent Van Peteghem.
News
February 20, 2024

Belgium sees growing support for ‘common defence bonds’

A proposal to enhance European defence collaboration by raising €100 billion through the issuance of…
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The price of carbon allowances plummeted in Europe against the backdrop of the escalating Russian-Ukrainian war, lowering the cost of carbon emissions for the EU's most polluting companies. That fall has since been rapidly reversed.
February 20, 2024

As carbon prices plunge, market seen vulnerable to short squeeze

Although fundamentals remain weak and carbon prices are half of what they were a year ago, market…
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February 20, 2024

Belgian ETFs grapple with tax inconsistencies

Belgium’s Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) market finds itself navigating through a tax system…
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KKR headquarters, New York, photo: Wally Gobetz, Flickr 
Asset Allocation
February 19, 2024

45% of family offices want more private credit in portfolios

More than half of family offices want to add even more private investments to portfolios by 2024…
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Jeroen Blokland
Opinion
February 19, 2024

Powell’s Predicament

The recent inflation bombshell must have rattled Powell and his cohorts, throwing a wrench into…
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