Raymond Frenken

Raymond Frenken

Agnes Cai, Chief Executive Officer at Foord Asset Management Singapore. Photo: Foord.
Products
July 12, 2022

South Africa’s Foord targets Australia via Luxembourg

Foord Asset Management, a firm with South African roots and a Luxembourg presence since 2013, is…
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Patrick de Cambourg, chair of the EU Taskforce on Sustainability Reporting Standards. Photo: Mazars.
Laws and Regulations
July 11, 2022

EU places ESG reporting on par with financial data

A new EU law from 2025 will require companies in Europe to accept a future in which their reporting…
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World Pensions Council panel in Paris, with Gert Dijkstra, senior managing director at APG.
Asset Managers
July 7, 2022

APG says EU regime for impact funds creates greenwashing risk

The increasingly stringent EU regime for green finance was discussed in Paris on Wednesday at the…
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A BMW manufacturing plant in Leipzig, Germany. Photo: BMW CC BY-SA 2.0 de
News
July 5, 2022

First German trade deficit in 31 years shows EU’s vulnerability

Germany has unexpectedly reported its first trade deficit since 1991. The reversal of the trade…
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Raymond Frenken, editorial manager of Investment Officer Luxembourg.
Opinion
July 1, 2022

In Flux: Industry 4.0 as the ‘new Ucits’

In Luxembourg’s financial sector, ‘the new Ucits’ is an informal but widely recognised label that…
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Left to right: Moderator Alexandre Hector, KPMG; Tom Slocock, iCapital; Manuel San Salvador, Antwort; and Olivier Dauman, Indosuez. Photo: LPEA.
Investing
June 30, 2022

Wider access to private equity for HNWIs not without risk

Private Equity in the coming years is set to attract a wider range of investors, in particular those…
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EY Luxembourg presents its 2022 attractiveness survey.
Sector
June 29, 2022

Post-Brexit financial boom in Luxembourg is over, EY says

Luxembourg’s post-Brexit boom in financial sector relocations and foreign direct investment is over…
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Raymond Frenken, editorial manager of Investment Officer Luxembourg.
Opinion
June 24, 2022

In Flux: A black Bloomsday

Luxembourg has witnessed that European integration still has its limits, even when war rages on…
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Professor Daniel Kahneman at the 2022 Amundi World Investment Forum in Paris. Photo: Amundi
June 23, 2022

Kahneman: better decisions make world a better place

In an interview with Investment Officer, Nobel Economics Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, speaks about…
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Vianden castle in Luxembourg. Photo via Unsplash.
Asset Managers
June 22, 2022

Luxembourg retains lead as funds hub, Ireland catches up

Although its overall market share contracted slightly, Luxembourg last year held on to its number…
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Peter Hughes, founder and CEO of Apex Group. Photo: Apex.
Asset Servicing
June 21, 2022

At Apex, Luxembourg inspires a global business model

At Apex Group, present in Luxembourg also with management companies such as FundRock and LRI Invest…
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Niall Ferguson addressing the 2022 Amundi World Investment Forum in Paris. Photo: Amundi.
Asset Allocation
June 16, 2022

A rerun of the 1970s requires a profound rethink

It’s not difficult to compare today’s era to the 1970s. An energy crisis, a hot war, a cold war…
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LAFO-LPEA Panel: What's in the mind of FO in 2022?
Family Offices
June 15, 2022

Multi-family office approach ‘correct answer to the market’

Family wealth managers are more and more challenged by demands placed on them by digitalisation…
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Raymond Frenken, editorial manager of Investment Officer Luxembourg.
Opinion
June 14, 2022

In Flux: Who’s afraid of private equity?

Is private equity, like Amundi’s Chief Investment Officer Vincent Mortier recently said, a Ponzi…
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