Global financial services provider Apex Group is taking over Alfi Partners, a Luxembourg-based third-party fund marketing specialist, the firm announced today. Alfi Partners will become part of Apex FundRock, the largest third-party manager of investment …

Regulatory uncertainty that the industry is contending with as a result of the complex range of interacting legal requirements needs to be recognised as a factor when considering greenwashing, Efama, the EU’s main trade body for asset management, said. …

Discussing and agreeing a single and coordinated EU “industry policy” has often been difficult and controversial in Brussels. Yet, all of a sudden, the “i-word” is back in fashion; the European Union should even make it the reason for its existence, …

“The UBS phase is over,” a Quintet banker told me last week. Luxembourg-based Qatari-owned Quintet Private Bank - 2,000 staff in 50 cities - is looking forward to calmer waters after sailing through choppy waters during the last three years. That course …

Last year was another disappointing year for emerging market investors. The MSCI EM index yielded more than the MSCI World index, although the underperformance was less dramatic than in 2021. A summary of key events and a ranking of the five …

With economic growth slowing down in all three of the world’s major economies, investors are best advised to opt for the geographical region with the least messy outlook, leading international economist Mohammed El-Erian has told a Nordic conference. “The …

The oh-so-popular post-war 60/40 portfolio is worn out - passé. So say many asset allocation strategists. The alternative is 60/40/20: equities, bonds and alternatives. Nay, says Zoltan Pozsar, strategist at Credit Suisse. The future is the 20/40/20/20 …

A lack of financial literacy and unfamiliarity with digital technologies are key drivers of financial vulnerability and exclusion, Europe’s three financial sector supervisors said in a collective report. Access to digital channels and digital …

Luxembourg-based global private bank Quintet has reshuffled the top leadership of its branches in Luxembourg and Germany following a series of departures of senior executives at the end of last year that included CEO Europe Thomas Rodermann, one of …

By a landslide, Dublin-headquartered investment services firm Waystone has emerged as the biggest issuer in the Luxembourg market for Reserved Alternative Investment Funds, or Raifs, the latest data analysis by Investment Officer Luxembourg shows. Based …

Alfi Partners becomes part of FundRock, joins Apex family

Industry on greenwashing: intent, uncertainty matter

Made in Europe: France wants to save EU industry

In Flux: A turning point for Quintet?

Top 5: BlackRock’s emerging market strategy works

El-Erian: ‘The cleanest dirty shirt is in the US’

‘Polycrisis world calls for a 20/40/20/20 portfolio’

‘Poor financial literacy drives vulnerability risks, exclusion’

Quintet reshuffles country CEOs as Rodermann exits

Waystone emerges as big gorilla in the Raif market