A survey conducted among 300 investment institutions, including asset managers, asset owners and insurance firms, has found a mixed understanding of digital assets among investment professionals. The results point to different levels of readiness to using …

The crusade against "woke capitalism" is entering a new phase in the United States now that Republican politicians turn against ESG policies in asset management. Jan van Eck, chief executive of the global ETF boutique carrying his name, this interference …

There’s a battle raging just out of view on Europe’s financial markets. The dispute is between owners and users of trading data and is over who gets to profit from it. The battle lines have been drawn between the data originators – largely but not only …

Luxembourg’s financial regulator the CSSF announced last Friday afternoon that it had fined trust and corporate services provider Intertrust (Luxembourg) S.à r.l. nearly 200,000 euros at the end of last November for several failings. This included meeting …

Less than a month after the European parliament adopted its updated regulation for Eltifs - the European long-term investment funds - the new framework may be showing its first cracks. The lack of liquidity remains problematic, and that makes it …

Some 27 new Reserved Alternative Investment Funds, or Raifs, were registered at the Luxembourg Business Register during February, according to information made public at the end of the month. The number brings the total new Raifs registered so far this …

Responsible investment policies at two thirds of the world’s major asset managers, representing some 60 trillion dollars in assets under management, fall short of their objectives, leaving the firms with “serious gaps” in their practices, according to a …

My column last week, titled 'Cash is king,' showed that both cash and bonds are again competing with equities. After years of being saddled with TINA - There Is No Alternative - there again is something for investors to choose from. Now of course those …

A Luxembourg roundtable initiative that brought together public and private sector stakeholders with an interest in the economic recovery of Ukraine has evolved into becoming UkrainePlatform, a think tank focused on encouraging investments and developing …

Banks are vulnerable to damage from climate change, which could particularly affect their balance sheets and asset holdings. Banks in southern Europe are more vulnerable than average: they face increased physical risks for more than 60 per cent of their …

Survey finds mixed understanding of digital assets

Jan van Eck: ESG investments need political intervention

Trading data users decry bourse’s ‘cash cow approach’

CSSF issues fines Intertrust over poor governance

‘Liquidity remains an issue in the new Eltif framework’

New Raif registrations remain below year-ago levels

ESG policies point to growing geographical split

Chart of the week: are stocks overpriced?

UkrainePlatform emerges as investment think tank

Climate risks have ‘sizeable’ impact on bank profits