Erik Breen

A safety net on a sailing ship. Photo CC via Flickr.
Asset Managers
March 8, 2022

​​​​​​​EU’s costly financial safety net inspires confidence

The financial industry often baulked at the tens of billions of euros it pays for EU’s comprehensive…
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Shanghai. Photo via Unsplash
Asset Servicing
March 7, 2022

China’s Starlight picks Apex for fund services

Starlight Capital, a China-based venture capital group founded in 2021, has picked Apex Group to…
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Cathie Wood, ARK Innovation ETF. Photo by Ark.
Asset Managers
March 7, 2022

Cathie Wood’s faith in innovation remains strong

While the plunge in the Ark Innovation ETF, a once-popular technology fund with about 50 billion…
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March 7, 2022

Markets fall again as oil surges, ECB faces complex dilemma

Financial markets started another volatile week on Monday, extending their declines after leading…
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March 4, 2022

Top 5 - LuxX in the lead

Almost every European country has its own national stock index. Indices like the AEX, the BEL20 and…
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Vianden castle in Luxembourg. Photo via Unsplash.
Laws and Regulations
March 4, 2022

Luxembourg reluctant to move on Russian oligarchs

Luxembourg has joined the international move to impose sanctions against Russia for its ruthless…
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Chris Govaerts, Nagelmackers chief strategist
Asset Allocation
March 3, 2022

Nagelmackers sees UK, China, Brazil as macro hedge

A global macro strategy seems the place to be in the current extremely volatile stock market climate…
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Bloomberg terminals in use. Photo by Lisa Barker via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Asset Allocation
March 2, 2022

Russian assets now seen as 'morally reprehensible'

Russia ETFs or funds are dropping out of the market in droves. Some are still open, as market makers…
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Former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Laws and Regulations
March 2, 2022

Luxembourg’s Russian interests set for change

Russian interests have found Luxembourg’s expertise useful as a European business hub for several…
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F18a's Super Hornets. Photo: Boeing.
Products
March 2, 2022

Defence: how an unwanted child becomes wanted

German Chancellor Scholz’s announcement that he is making 100 billion euro available from the…
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Camille Thommes. Photo: Alfi
Asset Managers
March 1, 2022

Alfi DG Thommes: ‘Indirect impact may go further’

Also as international funds hub, Luxembourg finds itself exposed to the economic fallout from Russia…
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Zurich. Photo by Ricardo Gomez via Unsplash
March 1, 2022

Swiss join EU sanctions against Russia

Switzerland, long a place for Russian oligarchs to park their money, announced Monday it would set…
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ESG Finance. Photo: Unsplash
Asset Allocation
March 1, 2022

Worldwide inflows into ESG funds decline

Worldwide net inflows into Exchange Traded Funds with an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)…
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Moscow. Photo via Unsplash.
Sector
February 28, 2022

Future of 855 Russia funds, ETFs uncertain

The future of some 855 funds with exposure to Russia is shrouded in uncertainty as the turmoil in…
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