Asset services provider Apex Group has announced a collaboration with BlackRock’s eFront to provide its ESG data consulting services to investors in private markets. The partnership will provide GPs, General Partners, as private equity investors are often …

Luxembourg is not immune when it comes to cyber security. The grand duchy’s anti-cyber risk effort lacks centralisation and does not have a single point of contact, which makes its companies and institutions vulnerable. For hackers and data thieves, it …

Luxembourg-based Cube Infrastructure Managers has agreed to acquire Firstcolo Datacenters GmbH, a Frankfurt-based data centre business providing colocation, dedicated servers, managed services and private cloud solutions, for an undisclosed amount. …

The private loan market is being revalued. Risks are becoming more expensive and coupons are shooting up. Positive for pension funds and insurers that stay put until maturity, but investors in this category also sometimes have distressed moments. “Will …

Luxembourg’s bank clients remained conservative in 2021, keeping nearly all - or 80 percent - of their assets in savings, even when interest rates are low, a survey conducted jointly by the Luxembourg bank association ABBL and financial regulator CSSF …

To preserve financial stability , EU supervisory agencies for energy markets and for financial markets on Tuesday said they will intensify their cooperation and improve their exchange of information, seeking to avoid potential market abuse in Europe’s …

ESG isn’t a project. It isn’t about appointing a team who can bolt sustainability on to an asset management operation. To win the trust of investors, staff, regulators, civil society, the press, ESG must be embedded in strategy, the LuxFLAG Sustainable …

Plans by Paris-based Caceis to take over RBC Investor Services’ European business are raising redundancy fears among the firm’s 900 or so Luxembourg-based staff members in Belval, the quarter of Esch-sur-Alzette that was once known for its steel …

Equity markets are still overvalued despite the deep declines we have seen this year. That is the view of Andrew Balls, CIO of Pimco, world's largest active bond investor. According to him, both a mild recession, and falling earnings expectations are not …

In-house valuation teams, with experts for every asset class, will become a standard feature among Alternative Investment Fund Managers, known as AIFMs, write Universal Investment's Gerrit van Vliet and Krzystof Czerner in this contribution as knowledge …

Apex offers ESG data in private markets via Blackrock's eFront

A lack of coordination undermines cyber security

Cube Infrastructure acquires German green data centre

Private loan investors need to navigate rising risk

Luxembourg bank clients prefer savings to investments

EU supervisors for markets, energy step up cooperation

Sustainable Investment Week: Why ESG has to be strategic

Caceis’ plan to buy RBC ITS raises questions in Belval

Pimco: ‘Equity valuations look unreliable’

In-house valuation teams add value to AIFM clients