Rather than having to file the same publicly available financial and non-financial information multiple times with national and European regulators, why not have a single, centralised repository for this data? That’s the idea behind the European Single …

Top-level European securities markets regulator ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) has announced it will be examining the valuation of UCITS and open-ended alternative investment funds (AIFs) across the EU. ESMA will do this in concert with …

In the search for yield, some high yield investors are shifting to a broader mandate to invest in "below B", the riskiest segment of high yield. PGIM recently repositioned two high yield funds to invest in CCC and CC bonds. Until recently, PGIM's European …

Quintet Private Bank today announced the launch of the “world’s first multi-asset, climate-neutral investment fund”, Essential Portfolio Selection (EPS) Quintet Earth after raising some 280 million euros in funding. This UCITS fund “combines equal …

Integrating distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be "a real challenge" for financial institutions and regulators, Luxembourg’s financial regulator the CSSF (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier) said last Friday in a white paper on …

The new corporate taxation rules from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) join earlier reforms that collectively pose economic and fiscal risks to the Luxembourg economy, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). …

Investors are watching the recovering raw materials market with suspicion. There is even a commodities supercycle on the way, according to Jeffrey Currie, the global head of the commodities research department at investment bank Goldman Sachs. Currie is …

KPMG Luxembourg has named Annick Breton and Christian Guertler as partners in its asset management consulting business. They will work closely with Yves Courtois, Head of Advisory and the Advisory Partners group. Both Breton and Guertler have a strong …

Hopes are high in Luxembourg that the Grand Duchy this year will be able to claim a sizeable chunk of a growing European market for Collateralised Loan Obligations (CLOs), a structured financial product pooling corporate debts. With an update in its …

Unshell – the name given to the third anti tax-avoidance directive (ATAD III) – would have a “huge impact for Luxembourg, especially for Luxembourg” said Carlo Fassbinder, tax director at the Luxembourg finance ministry. In particular, he is concerned …

Towards a streamlined EU regulatory database

Regulators to examine investment fund valuation

High yield investors shift to riskiest piece

Quintet launches new multi-asset, climate neutral fund

CSSF: DLT/Blockchain "a real challenge"

Impact of OECD “structured formal garden” for tax rules

Experts predict super cycle for raw materials

KPMG Luxembourg names Breton, Guertler as partner

Luxembourg plays to win in musical chairs dance for CLOs

Funds caught in EU’s “Unshell” plans