An increasing number of chief executives recognises that sustainability is one of the main challenges they face over the coming years, a new survey among 3,000 CEOs said. The pressure on CEOs is not coming from consumers and policy makers, but from board …

A changing of the guard at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, known as LuxSE, and strong results increases across the board were the themes at Wednesday’s Luxembourg Stock Exchange annual press conference. Outgoing Chairman Frank Wagener spoke of the stock …

Waving goodbye to what it calls “disflationary dynamics,” the European Central Bank on Wednesday sent clear signals that Eurozone interest rates will continue to rise for the foreseeable future after a first hike that could come as early as July. Two of …

Total assets under management in the European fund industry fell to 14.5 trillion euro at the end of the first quarter from 15.3 trillion at the end of last year, according to the latest European Fund Markets Report by Refinitiv Lipper. The negative …

Has growth in new registrations of Reserved Alternative Investment Funds, known as Raifs, in Luxembourg peaked? As Investment Officer readers have noted, growth tailed off in February and March. Marc Kriegsmann, Raif market specialist at leading …

Anthos Fund & Asset Management BV, the asset manager of the Brenninkmeijer family's holding company Cofra, takes pride in moving with the times. It is working on a major transformation, no mean feat in view of the international laws and regulations. Once …

Investing in trees might at first not seem the quickest route to wealth. Yet timber investments increasingly leverage their clear connection to sustainability and their long-term real asset investment characteristics. Timber investments can serve as a …

The Nasdaq is in a clear downtrend. It is still being held up by the 'generals', the big tech heavyweights such as Alphabet, Microsoft and the like, but it is important to watch out. At times of war, the generals are often the last to die. Despite the …

Despite a wider uptake of alternative energy, fossil fuels like natural gas, oil and coal are here to stay for the next decades and the MSCI Global Energy Composite index will outperform both renewable energy stocks and the broad equity market over the …

Mortgage rates and home prices are skyrocketing worldwide. That is not good news for housing affordability. The graph below shows the relationship between the one-year change in US 30-year mortgage rates and the one-year change in the 'Housing …

As investors push, CEOs struggle with sustainability

Success keeps LuxSE autonomous from big players

ECB signals long path of eurozone interest rate hikes

European fund assets decline to 14.5 trillion euro in Q1

KYC/AML, alternatives may impact Raif registrations

Dutch C&A family set to lift veil on multi-family AIFM

Amid pulp shortage, forest funds promote sustainability

Position of the 'Nasdaq generals' is faltering

Fossil fuels: ‘reports of my death are greatly exaggerated’

Chart of the week: Homes unaffordable?