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February 23, 2024

ESG rating providers now subject to Esma supervision

EU-level regulation adopted this week by the European Parliament places ESG rating providers under…
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Asset Allocation
February 22, 2024

Picks-and-shovels strategies alive as Nvidia fuels AI gold rush

Artificial intelligence and semiconductor stocks rallied late Wednesday during after-hours trading…
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News
February 22, 2024

Unified investment product would be bold move for EU

Imagine a groundbreaking European savings and investment product, open to all 450 million…
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Abdel Hmitti, managing director and global head of funds at Vistra in Luxembourg. Photo: Vistra.
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February 22, 2024

Transfer Thursday: Vistra, LuxCMA, Servitia, Kaufhold

This week’s Luxembourg overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other people news…
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Opinion
February 22, 2024

A new eurocrisis

This year commemorates the 25th anniversary of the euro, but the festivities are notably absent. In…
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Laws and Regulations
February 21, 2024

CSSF fines Mizuho nearly half a million euro for breaches

Luxembourg’s CSSF financial regulator on 20 February announced that in late 2023, it had imposed a…
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Joan Solotar, global head of private wealth solutions at Blackstone.
Asset Managers
February 21, 2024

Blackstone’s Solotar foresees structural shift to private credit

Interest in investing in private markets, private credit in particular, may have surged, but that…
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Freddy Forger, founder and partner at Stoic.
Asset Managers
February 21, 2024

‘We are behavioural psychologists rather than asset managers’

To become content, one must liberate themselves from emotions. Amsterdam-based asset manager Stoic…
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Marc Meyers and Sebastiaan Hooghiemstra at LooyensLoeff Luxembourg.
Sector
February 21, 2024

Eltif 2 Matchmaking: New opportunities for secondary markets

On 19 December 2023, the European Securities and Markets Authority, Esma, published its final report…
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Belgium's finance ministers Vincent Van Peteghem.
News
February 20, 2024

Belgium sees growing support for ‘common defence bonds’

A proposal to enhance European defence collaboration by raising €100 billion through the issuance of…
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