The first decade of Luxembourg's Reserved Alternative Investment Fund (RAIF) established a new model for alternative investment funds. Its second decade begins with a different debate. Some industry specialists see governance and operational flexibility …

Federico Inciarte Sánchez has been appointed head of business development at the Luxembourg-based alternative fund services provider Embankment. He will help build the firm's commercial activities and support the expansion of its Luxembourg office and …

Markets are still not adequately pricing in rising inflation and are underestimating the extent to which higher oil prices will feed through to the entire supply chain. Investors should therefore demand higher term premiums, particularly in the United …

History never repeats itself in financial markets, but it often rhymes. Long-Term Capital Management is a good example. Founded in 1994 by some of Wall Street's brightest minds and built on the celebrated Black-Scholes-Merton model, the hedge fund briefly …

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) could eventually become the dominant way for investors to access private markets, according to State Street's latest private markets study. For Luxembourg, which combines expertise in private markets and ETFs, that shift could …

For family offices, status is increasingly giving way to performance. Wealthy families that once built their wealth around so-called trophy assets such as landmark buildings and art collections are shifting toward broader, institutionally constructed …

Luxembourg is poised to expand the structuring options for alternative investment funds by allowing certain unregulated partnership AIFs to use statutory umbrella compartments for the first time. The change could reduce one of the main reasons sponsors …

Euronext Brussels moved out of the Stock Exchange building in the heart of the city in 2015, bringing 142 years of trading in the landmark building to an end. “I don’t mind that it ultimately became a beer museum. But there was another scenario on the …

AI is changing the market. Technology giants such as Alphabet cannot escape the enormous investments required by the AI race. Quality investor Terry Smith is therefore adapting his investment process. He has identified the problem remarkably well, yet …

Strong quarterly results confirm that the European banking sector is now well equipped to withstand shocks. The war in the Middle East and developments involving private credit funds have raised a few eyebrows here and there, but optimism remains the …

After a decade of success, the RAIF searches for a new growth engine

Transfers: Embankment, Columbia Threadneedle, Berenberg, Fidelity

Carmignac bond executive warns inflation risk is underpriced

The tail wags the dog

Luxembourg eyes the next phase of private market investing

Family offices trade trophy assets for institutional portfolios

Loyens & Loeff: Luxembourg broadens SCSp/SCS fund toolkit

Trading floors: how the Brussels Stock Exchange became a beer temple

Terry Smith is right about AI, that’s why we’re not changing anything

European banks remain on solid footing