In order to remain competitive with other countries in Europe, Luxembourg needs to quickly lower its minimum entry threshold for investors in private equity without waiting for new European Union rules to emerge in the coming years, a lead member of the …

As real estate markets worldwide move in tandem by showing clear signs of a downturn, two major international financial bodies this week have reiterated their concerns over the housing market’s potential impact on financial stability. Both the European …

Infrastructure is not immune to the current economic malaise, but it is important to isolate macroeconomic variables for each investment. “Analysing sectors or asset classes is not enough: you have to analyse each asset to determine its macro impact.” So …

Many investors are on the fence about re-entering the badly battered bond market when the bottom may be near. The smart ones will want to enter the market well before interest rates hit their peak, says Michael Gitlin, partner and head of fixed income at …

FundRock, a Luxembourg-based third-party management company part of the Apex Group, said on Monday that it has expanded its relationship with UK-based fund manager Fundsmith to now include distribution services in Europe, particularly Italy. In addition …

The European Securities and Markets Authority on Monday said it sees a need to create a common supervisory culture in the EU and believes that national financial supervisors need to intensify their horizontal, cross-border cooperation. It also …

Marguerite II, a pan-European infrastructure fund in Luxembourg, said it has acquired full ownership of Red de Calor de Cuenca (RCC), a project company which will build and run a a greenfield heating network in Cuenca, a Spanish city in the Castilla La …

HSBC has chosen Clearstream, Deutsche Börse’s Luxembourg-based post-trading service provider, as its global partner for administering investment fund activities for fund order routing, safekeeping, settlement and distribution support services. Vestima, …

BlocHome, a Luxembourg blockchain real estate investment platform, has arranged a guarantee that will allow it to finance the first security token-based residential project in Europe, an eight million euro housing project in Luxembourg known as the …

European financials are in the spotlight again. And once again, it is not because of anything good. The CDS spread on Credit Suisse has spurted up over the past few days. Is this just the tip of the iceberg? Many “investors” and “gurus” are eager to point …

‘Luxembourg needs to cut investor threshold to €100k’

Synchronised housing market downturn triggers nerve pains

‘Infrastructure is an attractive inflation hedge’

‘If interest rates peak in six months, now is time to act’

Fundsmith to distribute funds in Italy via FundRock

‘Ambitious’ Esma wants common supervisory culture

Marguerite closes heating network investment in Spain

HSBC picks Clearstream for fund processing, distribution

Tokenised real estate project plows ahead with a guarantee

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