As real estate returns to favor as an asset class, sourcing investment opportunities is not necessarily the biggest challenge that wealthy families face. The real hurdle is conducting thorough due diligence—but this can be tackled by joining forces with …

Artificial intelligence has unsettled software stocks for months. Now it is testing European credit markets and exposing fault lines in parts of private credit that were sold to investors as stable and uncorrelated. “If the software issue remains …

Utmost, a London-headquartered provider of insurance-based wealth solutions, has appointed Nicoletta Basso as branch manager of its Luxembourg branch. She previously served for more than 6 years at Utmost as tax and legal counsel for Italy, advising high …

Candriam is lowering the ESG bar for two major funds. This is intended to make investments in “selected defense companies” possible. The move concerns the investment company Candriam Business Equities, the successor to Dexia Business Equities, which …

Prime Minister Takaichi’s clear reflation policy is making Japan attractive to investors once more, even though the policy rate, at 0.75 percent, stands at its highest level in thirty years. The panic surrounding the unwinding of the yen carry trade, …

Private market fund managers are entering 2026 with record fundraising confidence, and much of that expansion is being engineered out of Luxembourg, according to Carne Group. The Grand Duchy has become the operational nerve centre for European private …

The S&P500 is virtually unchanged this year, but beneath the surface the US equity market is moving more than it has in years. More than one fifth of all stocks in the index have already risen or fallen by more than 20 percent this year. The gainers are …

Wealthy families are no longer anchored to a single country, and neither are their assets. As heirs disperse and capital flows across jurisdictions, succession planning is shifting from domestic estate structuring to cross-border patrimonial engineering, …

The Federal Reserve has little appetite to cut interest rates in the near term. Minutes of the January meeting show policymakers are increasingly concerned that inflation could stay above the 2 percent target for longer than expected. Markets might have …

Since Trump’s reelection as president of the United States, the world has been on edge. Geopolitical tensions dominate the markets, and the role of the dollar is once again under discussion. Still, I find it difficult to translate that into the idea that …

To navigate private assets, wealthy families are investing together

Software selloff drives repricing in Europe’s loan markets

Transfers: Utmost, JP Morgan, Jupiter, Bain, HQ Trust, Colliers

Candriam lowers ESG standards to allow defense companies

Clarity around ‘Sanaenomics’ makes Japan investable again

Private markets boom faces hardening investor scrutiny

The great rotation

Mobile heirs drive new demand for Luxembourg structures

Fed is not keen on cutting rates, feeding speculation of a rate hike

Chart of the week: if the euro falls