Emmanuel Vanbrussel

Eltifs in Luxembourg. Photo: IO.
Sector
January 23, 2024

Eltif 2.0: Industry urges EC to adopt ‘correct’ standards

The trade association representing Europe’s fund and asset management sector has urged the executive…
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Jeroen Blokland
Investing
January 22, 2024

Markets’ inscrutable movements

Markets can often be inscrutable, as seen in December’s US inflation data, which showed a rise in…
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Amundi on US bank crisis: ‘This is not a systemic risk’
Asset Managers
January 22, 2024

Amundi Research Institute keeps CIOs, clients on track

A fresh approach to investment research that Paris-based Amundi, Europe’s only asset manager ranked…
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Valerie Urbain, the incoming CEO at Euroclear. Photo: Euroclear.
Sector
January 18, 2024

Transfer Thursday: Euroclear, Arrow, Partners Group, KPMG 

This week’s overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other people news includes updates…
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Photo via Unsplash.
Sector
January 18, 2024

LPs become more demanding as dry powder grows

In the private equity (PE) market, a significant shift is occurring as Limited Partners (LPs)…
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Asset Allocation
January 17, 2024

European small caps are staging a comeback

Small-cap stocks in Europe seem to be making a comeback. After two years of declining relative…
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EU flag at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Photo © European Union - European Parliament
Sector
January 17, 2024

‘Stunted’ EU fund sector requires more diverse investor base

European financial services had witnessed a marked decline in global market share over the past 15…
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MARC MEYERS AND SEBASTIAAN HOOGHIEMSTRA of Loyens Loeff Luxembourg. Photo: Luxembourg for Finance.
Opinion
January 17, 2024

The future of open-ended Eltifs is still undecided

The use of liquidity pockets for open-ended Eltifs, European long term investment funds, remains to…
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iShares: bond ETF market can grow to $5,000 billion
Investing
January 16, 2024

European ETF assets hit record high in 2023

The European Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) industry has witnessed a remarkable surge in 2023, with…
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Opinion
January 16, 2024

Belgian Cayman on the prowl in Luxembourg

In a recent fiscal flourish, Belgian finance minister Vincent Van Peteghem’s tax reform, originally…
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David Layton, Partner and CEO at Partners Group.
Asset Servicing
January 16, 2024

Partners Group 2023 AuM up 8% at 147 billion dollars

Partners Group, a publicly-traded Swiss private market investment manager that draws a third of its…
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Frankfurt. Photo by the European Central Bank via Flickr CC-BY-2.0.
January 16, 2024

Arendt boosts German services with Frankfurt office

Arendt, a law firm specialising in Luxembourg law, has expanded its international presence with the…
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Tesla founder Elon Musk. Photo via Wikimedia CC-BY-2.0
News
January 15, 2024

World could see its first ‘trillionaire’ in next decade

The global wealth gap has alarmingly widened since 2020, with the top five richest men globally…
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Protests at the AGM of Royal Dutch Shell Group PLC. Photo by Laura Ponchel via Flickr CC-BY-2.0.
Asset Managers
January 15, 2024

Managers ‘turn their back’ on humanity, environment

Support from the world’s preeminent asset managers for shareholder proposals concentrating on…
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