The UK has taken a further cautious step towards the permanent regime which will govern access to its market for EU-based Ucits funds. This came with the introduction of regulations establishing the Overseas Funds Regime (OFR) on 23 February. This gives a …

A Luxembourg-based investment firm that announced late last week that it will launch what it calls the first alternative fund investing entirely in crypto assets in this country by year’s end is counting on this country’s high quality regulation and …

I am a fan of the Bank of America Global Fund Manager Survey. Not only because this survey covers many important investment themes or because the respondents are exclusively investors, as opposed to “connoisseurs” who give their opinions from the …

There are no winners in a war, but investors who held commodities in their portfolios in recent weeks were able to limit their losses, writes Morningstar’s Thomas De fauw in his Top 5 contribution for this week. Prices for energy, metals and agricultural …

The performance gap between value and growth is still significant since the beginning of the year, but growth is starting to catch up. With the Fed on a rate hike course, and with the possibility of a shallow recession in Europe and the US, growth stocks …

Economic growth in the EU will be "severely affected" by the disruption triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission has warned. Investor confidence in Germany, Europe's largest economy, is falling sharply. The multiplicity of …

Fund managers across Europe can opt for a label to certify their investment product does what it says it does. The Luxembourg Finance Labelling Agency, also known as Luxflag, has certified some 365 funds, mostly with an ESG label. Luxflag chair Denise …

Fondsnieuws, the Dutch-language sister publication of InvestmentOfficer.lu, on Thursday was renamed as Investment Officer as it migrated to a new website, investmentofficer.nl , in order to better serve its subscribers in the Netherlands. With this …

Luxembourg’s financial supervisor CSSF on Thursday acknowledged that there is 'some' room for improving its international cooperation with other supervisors after a peer review conducted by the EU’s securities markets authority found a number of …

The EU's financial supervisory authorities on Thursday warned consumers that many crypto-assets are highly risky and speculative. The authorities - including the bodies that supervise securities markets and the banking sector, set out key steps consumers …

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