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May 28, 2026
Investing

Luxembourg’s financial machine enters the AMLA era with major readiness gaps

Luxembourg’s role as Europe’s dominant cross-border fund centre may also make it one of the first major testing grounds for the EU’s new anti-money laundering authority, as AMLA turns its attention toward complex private markets structures, fragmented …
May 28, 2026
Asset Allocation

Active ETFs redraw Europe’s investment landscape

For years, European investors treated ETFs as passive building blocks and mutual funds as the natural home for active management. But as active ETFs gain ground, that distinction is becoming harder to sustain. When Piera Elisa Grassi, portfolio manager at …
May 27, 2026
Investing

Greed, not fraud, is driving the chaos in private AI shares

Demand for Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX shares has overwhelmed a secondary market designed for venture firms and insiders. Family offices, private banks and accredited investors are now buying layered claims through structures few of them fully …
May 27, 2026
Asset Servicing

Luxembourg fund industry seeks to streamline paperwork checks

Luxembourg’s fund association Alfi has partnered with a local technology firm to help asset managers identify inconsistencies across investor documents, after Luxembourg’s financial regulator warned it may begin carrying out its own disclosure checks. The …
May 26, 2026
Asset Allocation

Teflon markets: why turmoil now reads as stimulus

Wars grind on in Ukraine and the Middle East. The United States and China remain locked in unresolved tension. Oil traders are again weighing the vulnerability of the Strait of Hormuz. And yet major equity indices sit close to record highs. In market …
May 26, 2026
Investing

ETF’s gain ground in major portfolio reallocations

ETFs are no longer used exclusively to build passive long-term exposures. Institutional investors are increasingly deploying them to maintain market exposure during manager transitions, major reallocations, or to invest temporarily available cash. …
May 22, 2026
Expert Panel

Morningstar: iShares versus Vanguard in inflation-linked bond

Inflation-linked bond funds gain popularity in anticipation of inflationary spikes or persistently sticky inflation increases. Such was the case in 2020, 2022, April of 2025, and the start of 2026. Inflation-linked bond funds invest in debt securities …
May 22, 2026
Opinion

Chart of the week: the stumbling block that keeps shortening politicians’ shelf life

At the moment I am writing this column, Keir Starmer is still prime minister of the United Kingdom. And if it is up to him, he intends to remain so. The days when ministers stepped down voluntarily have long since passed. Nevertheless, this political soap …
May 21, 2026
Wealth Managers

Capiva private markets fund had average return of 2.7 percent

The Luxembourg-based Capiva Plus Fund (in which Auréus and SemmieWealth invested hundreds of millions of euro's in client assets) generated an average annual return of 2.68 percent over the past five years. This is according to data from Morningstar . …
May 21, 2026
Asset Allocation

JP Morgan tells wealthy clients: your cash is the risk now

Wealthy investors who built large cash buffers after the pandemic may now face a different threat: the gradual erosion of their purchasing power, says JP Morgan Private Bank in an interview.  The private bank says many clients remain heavily positioned in …