David Lloyd

CSSF's head office at Rue d'Arlon in Luxembourg. Photo: Raymond Frenken.
Asset Managers
April 26, 2022

Luxembourg AIF assets top 1000 billion euro for first time

Although growth in Luxembourg’s alternative investment funds market slowed in 2020, it remained…
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Paul Spendiff, Managing Director Fundrock Management Company
Asset Servicing
April 25, 2022

Fundrock to service Irish funds for Royal London

Fundrock, one of Europe’s largest third-party management companies with a significant presence in…
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Jeroen Blokland
Opinion
April 25, 2022

Chart of the week: Rising rates reduce appeal of stocks

Bond yields have shot up worldwide. The US 10-year yield stands at 2.90 percent compared to 1.50…
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Annick Drui, manager of the BL Sustainable Horizon fund. Photo: BLI.
Asset Managers
April 25, 2022

Managing impact funds is a balancing act, says BLI’s Drui

Fund managers looking for sustainable investments can find themselves with incomplete non-financial…
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Products
April 22, 2022

Top 5 emerging markets debt, local currencies: Man GLG

The asset class is caught in a general bear market for bonds. The GBI-EM Global Diversified Index…
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Investing
April 22, 2022

Gave sees silver lining around dark clouds over Ukraine

In the first quarter, investors sold off their Chinese shares en masse. Foreign investors who had…
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Photo via Unsplash.
Asset Allocation
April 22, 2022

Macro, multi-strategy hedge funds best performers in Q1

Hedge funds with a macro or multi-strategy focus were among the best performing funds in the first…
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Opinion
April 21, 2022

Green inflation

For the moment, inflation is largely caused by a sharp increase in energy prices. Two years ago, the…
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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the IMF.
Investing
April 20, 2022

IMF warns of ‘permanent fragmentation’

The International Monetary Fund has warned of a more permanent fragmentation of the world economy…
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Asset Allocation
April 19, 2022

High-yield corporates at a virtual standstill

Rising interest rates and continuing tension surrounding the Ukraine conflict have brought the…
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Nathalie Dogniez, a partner with PwC Luxembourg.
April 19, 2022

MiFID II to test SFDR labelling misconceptions

Failure to understand the requirements of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, known as…
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Severstal is a Russian company mainly operating in the steel and mining industry, listed on the Moscow Exchange.
Asset Allocation
April 15, 2022

Top 5 emerging markets shares: Nordea 1 in the lead

For emerging countries, the first quarter of 2022 was dominated by the war in Ukraine unleashed by…
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Raymond Frenken, editorial manager of Investment Officer Luxembourg.
Opinion
April 15, 2022

In Flux: a bubbling housing market, Reifs and rising rates

If there is one economic lesson my father, a construction engineer, taught me, it’s that mortgage…
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ECB President Christine Lagarde speaking at Thursday's monetary policy press conference. Photo: ECB.
News
April 14, 2022

Lagarde's roadmap for rates draws a mixed response

As inflation persists across Europe, with double-digit numbers for some eurozone countries, ECB…
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