Luxembourg's financial sector labelling agency LuxFlag granted its ESG and sustainability labels to five new investment products in the second quarter of 2023. This brings the total number of labelled investment and insurance products to 326, with a …

The overall rise in interest rates brings investors more opportunities to create yield through bonds and other fixed income assets than there have been in a long time. However, this has not changed the trend towards alternative investments. Both the …

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, known as Eiopa, on Monday published its Insurance Risk Dashboard for the first half of 2023. This assessment showed macroeconomic exposures as the most significant concerns at this time. Despite …

The global economy has experienced several major shocks in recent years. A period of normalisation has now begun. Once the dust settles, we'll see if there are any differences from the pre-pandemic world. To discover these, we must seek out striking and …

After a substantial rally, Artificial Intelligence (AI) stocks are still reasonably valued, according to Johannes Jacobi, an AI specialist at Allianz Global Investors. In a conversation with Investment Officer Belgium , Jacobi emphasized that from an …

Since 2014, the kickback fee, also known as distribution fee, has been abolished in the Netherlands. Prior to this, asset managers would continuously pay a fee to distributors whenever investments were made in the asset manager's funds. Naturally, the …

High inflation is far from tamed, and profit margins are expected to deteriorate. Therefore, it is prudent to adopt a more defensive stance in portfolios, according to Christoph Schmidt, senior portfolio manager of DWS Concept Kaldemorgen, in a with …

Arendt Services SA’s former secretary general and management committee member Marie Druinaud has left the law firm to start her own working venture as a consultant focusing in compliance and liquidation matters and as an independent director, interim …

Financial supervision in the European Union has encountered a pressing challenge - a notable disparity in the approaches taken by national financial supervisors when it comes to sanctioning investment funds. As the watchdog of the EU's financial markets, …

Luxembourg life assurance and wealth management company OneLife has been fined 580,000 euro by the country’s insurance supervisor Commissariat aux Assurances (CAA) after “certain failures” were detected in the firm’s anti-money laundering and …

LuxFlag labels 5 new funds in Q2, bringing total to 326

Appetite for alternatives remains strong

Macro risks currently the main concern for insurers

This is not going well, Europe!

‘Valuations of AI stocks remain reasonable’

The kickback fee is back

DWS’ Schmidt: More defensive portfolio stance is prudent

Transfers: Arendt’s Druinaud becomes consultant

EU divergence on fund fines poses challenge for Esma

OneLife fined €580,000 after CAA finds AML-CFT failures