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September 15, 2022
Asset Allocation,Investing

As inflation subsides, M&G eyes slowdown and war

Central bank interest rate hikes seems to have had their desired effect, with signs pointing to the end of the very high inflation of late, but, according to three chief investment officers at M&G Investments, the world’s economy isn’t out of the doldrums …
September 14, 2022
Asset Managers

KfW breaks €50 bln threshold in LGX-listed green bonds 

German state-owned bank KfW has become the first to have issued a total of more than 50 billion euro in green bonds on the Luxembourg Green Exchange, known as LGX, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange said. This achievement was marked by a LuxSE bell ceremony on …
September 14, 2022
Asset Servicing

Apex opens Swedish office, buys New Zealand's IIS

Apex Group, a Bermuda-headquartered fund services provider with substantial operations in Luxembourg, has opened a new office in Stockholm from which it will service clients in the Nordics region. The firm also has announced it acquired the parent company …
September 14, 2022
News

Position of women in funds falls consistently short

The position of women in the asset management industry has barely improved in the last seven years. Citywire's Alpha Female Report 2022 shows that a mere 5.5 percent of all actively managed funds - or one out of 18 - are led by women. “Progress towards …
September 14, 2022
Opinion

Sofia Harrschar: Investors find stability in alternatives

Economic insecurities on a broad scale are increasingly impacting the decision making of institutional investors. With continuously high volatilities in equities and, as an effect of rising interest rates, even in the bond markets, they look at illiquid …
September 13, 2022
Wealth Managers,Technology

VP Bank shows how tokenisation can be applied

Inheritance planning is one area where tokenisation can provide benefits, the experience of VP Bank in the Alpine state of Liechtenstein shows. The bank's specialists recent spoke in Luxembourg to explain how tokenisation can be applied once the EU MiCA …
September 13, 2022
News,Asset Servicing,Investing

A Luxembourg Raif helps finance Bill Gates’ Rome hotel

An alternative investment fund registered in Luxembourg turns out to have played a central role in the 165 million euro financing of the Palazzo Marini, Bill Gates’ new six-star hotel in the centre of Rome, close to the Trevi fountain, research shows.  …
September 12, 2022
Asset Managers,Laws and Regulations

CSSF imposed €4.3 mln in fines, biggest for BLI's parent

Luxembourg’s financial regulator CSSF imposed a total of 4.3 million euro in fines on financial services companies in the Grand Duchy last year, less than the 6 million euro in fines issued in 2020. Most fines were imposed under laws preventing …
September 12, 2022
Laws and Regulations

Nearly half of complaints to CSSF come from Germany, UK

The number of complaints received about financial services in Luxembourg last year rose by 25 percent, with clients in Germany and the U.K. accounting for almost half of them, according to the latest CSSF annual report. Luxembourg’s financial regulator …
September 12, 2022
Investing,Opinion

Chart of the week: A few rate hikes, but then what?

In retrospect, we can say that central banks used the annual Jackson Hole symposium to revive their credibility as inflation fighters. This also applies to the ECB. After yet another higher-than-expected inflation rate - we are now at 9.1 percent - and …