PwC Luxembourg has named Baptiste Guionnet as partner. Guionnet will support CEOs, CFOs and other C-level executives on all financial, performance and transformation matters of the finance function. Until recently he served as partner at Deloitte …

IntReal Luxembourg SA, a subsidiary of property-focused third-party AIF manager IntReal, has added Stephan Schilken, 48, to its management team as a managing director. He will serve in the position of conducting officer and brings to the job decades of …

The market for European long term investment funds, or Eltifs, is set to triple in the coming years as high-net-worth clients look to diversify their portfolios by increasing their exposure to private markets, according to US fund manager BlackRock. “We …

Banks across Europe and elsewhere in the world should brace themselves for having their climate policies challenged in court after French bank BNP Paribas last week became the first commercial bank to find itself confronted with a lawsuit because of its …

Luxembourg’s leading financial sector associations, together with the supervisory authorities and the government, are about to launch a public campaign that seeks to elucidate the general public in the grand duchy on sustainable finance. In particular, …

Financial services group Apex Group Ltd on Monday announced it has launched a new ESG database and benchmarking platform for private markets. Apex’s ESG data service is run as a ‘Data as a Service’, or DaaS, platform and draws on information from more …

The world’s top body to fight money laundering and financial crime on Monday warned that the international high value art and antiquities market has become vulnerable to money laundering and the financing of terrorism. It called on art dealers and …

Even after 40 percent of the EU’s most sustainable fund assets was downgraded during the fourth quarter, managers of investment funds with an outspoken sustainability profile are still not sure whether their funds meet the requirements for ESG investments …

Marion Le Morhedec is global head of fixed income at AXA Investment Management. For this edition of IO’s Portfolio Update podcast she spoke with Investment Officer ’s Max Severijns. Markets are focusing too much on monetary policy and too little on …

Third-party assets in ABN Amro Investment Solutions’ funds and mandate solutions have been rising since October 2020, with 30 percent of assets under management now coming from clients other than ABN Amro. Meanwhile, the fund house is focusing on its …

Deloitte’s Guionnet joins PwC Luxembourg as partner

Stephan Schilken joins IntReal as managing director

BlackRock has ‘aggressive plans’ for the Eltif market

Climate lawsuit against BNP Paribas seen as first of many

Luxembourg to elucidate public on ESG finance

Apex presents ESG database for private markets

FATF: art market needs to improve AML-CFT

‘Great Reclassification’ among ESG funds not yet over

Portfolio Update with Marion Le Morhedec, AXA IM

AAIS keen to expand it ESG offering outside ABN Amro