Frankfurt-based funds law firm Zeidler Group said it has received approval from Luxembourg’s financial regulator to serve professional clients and to support fund marketing as a UK Mifid firm under the third country regime in the Grand Duchy. In a …

In the turbulent first quarter of 2022, inflation and the pandemic gave way to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and resurfaced. Yet deep losses were recouped, and some investors even posted double-digit gains. This week in the Morningstar top five: mutual …

Those who see what’s happening in today’s post-Brexit financial world will undoubtedly recognise that Luxembourg is serious about its role as Europe’s back office. Luxembourg’s fund industry continues to transform and reinvent itself. Wedged in between …

Nearly nine years after the introduction of a Luxembourg fund vehicle known as the SCSp, allowing the alternative investment fund industry to register special limited partnerships, competing financial centre Ireland has finally introduced its own version, …

“It is not five minutes to twelve, but one minute to twelve,” said Detlef van Vuuren, one of the Dutch scientists who collaborated on the latest report by the UN climate agency, the IPCC. According to the report, presented on Monday, countries have to …

Invesco, an asset management firm with a Luxembourg presence in Kirchberg, Invesco Management S.A., said it has expanded its Benelux operation with the hire of a new ETF sales manager. Jolien Brouwer has joined the Invesco Benelux team as ETF sales …

When it comes to the prospect of a recession, and a possible prolonged period of stagflation, the jury is still out, even in Europe. Although in agreement on a deteriorating economic outlook, major asset managers such as BLI, Pictet and JP Morgan hold …

Most research papers on inflation focus on the period from 1950, after World War II, or from the 1980s after former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker destroyed inflation with a mighty series of interest rate hikes. Yet these periods offer less information than …

This week’s relative calm in equity and bond markets is in stark contrast with last month’s turbulence. Investors appear to have put concerns over the war in Ukraine on hold for a while. Some market experts warn however that “sentiment may be too …

Luxembourg’s financial supervisor, releasing its eagerly anticipated guidance for investment funds exposed to Russia, has outlined a range of segregation options to handle stranded assets in Russia. Funds also were reminded to assess if they are …

Zeidler gets CSSF permission as UK Mifid firm

Top 5 global equity funds: Gavekal Global leads

In Flux: Home of the Super ManCos

Ireland set to compete with new SCSp partnership regime

Climate: banks produce ‘white noise, no real substance'

Invesco adds VanEck's Brouwer to Benelux ETF team

The next waypoint for investors: corporate earnings

Chart of the week: What do we really know about inflation?

'Probability of prolonged market decline increases'

CSSF guides funds on stranded Russia assets