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January 28, 2022

Home to €5.86tn in global assets

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was home to a record EUR5.86 trillion in global financial assets at the end of last year, according to new data released on Friday by the country’s financial supervisor CSSF. That is up 17.8 percent from the end of the …
January 28, 2022
Events,Investing

Finance gets ready for 2030

It may be only 8 years away, but many representatives of Luxembourg’s financial centre have clear visions of a 2030 of higher technology but also a commitment to ESG values, but which may be a challenge to bring about. They spoke in a “10×6 Luxembourg - …
January 27, 2022
Asset Servicing

Raif becoming vehicle of choice for alternatives

An alternative investment vehicle that relatively swiftly established itself in Luxembourg continued to become more popular last year, an analysis of data filed with the country’s business register shows. If growth continues at the current pace, …
January 27, 2022
Supervision

Towards a streamlined EU regulatory database 

Rather than having to file the same publicly available financial and non-financial information multiple times with national and European regulators, why not have a single, centralised repository for this data? That’s the idea behind the European Single …
January 26, 2022
Supervision,Laws and Regulations

Regulators to examine investment fund valuation 

Top-level European securities markets regulator ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) has announced it will be examining the valuation of UCITS and open-ended alternative investment funds (AIFs) across the EU. ESMA will do this in concert with …
January 26, 2022
Asset Allocation,News

High yield investors shift to riskiest piece

In the search for yield, some high yield investors are shifting to a broader mandate to invest in "below B", the riskiest segment of high yield. PGIM recently repositioned two high yield funds to invest in CCC and CC bonds. Until recently, PGIM's European …
January 25, 2022
Asset Managers,Products

Quintet launches new multi-asset, climate neutral fund

Quintet Private Bank today announced the launch of the “world’s first multi-asset, climate-neutral investment fund”, Essential Portfolio Selection (EPS) Quintet Earth after raising some 280 million euros in funding. This UCITS fund “combines equal …
January 24, 2022
Supervision

CSSF: DLT/Blockchain "a real challenge"

Integrating distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be "a real challenge" for financial institutions and regulators, Luxembourg’s financial regulator the CSSF (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier) said last Friday in a white paper on …
January 21, 2022
Laws and Regulations

Impact of OECD “structured formal garden” for tax rules

The new corporate taxation rules from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) join earlier reforms that collectively pose economic and fiscal risks to the Luxembourg economy, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). …
January 21, 2022
Investing

Experts predict super cycle for raw materials

Investors are watching the recovering raw materials market with suspicion. There is even a commodities supercycle on the way, according to Jeffrey Currie, the global head of the commodities research department at investment bank Goldman Sachs. Currie  is …