The introduction of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation should enable investors to better assess investment funds on their sustainability merits. The framework divides the fund landscape into three groups, with so-called Article 9 funds …

Michael Burch has been appointed as CEO of ING in Luxembourg from 1 July 2022. He will succeed Colette Dierick, who has decided to leave ING after 35 years. Burch joins ING from Blackrock Asset Management, where he was country manager in Hungary. Before …

Shareholders of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on Wednesday appointed Alain Kinch as chairman of is board of directors. Kinsch succeed Frank Wagener, who served as LuxSE’s chair since 2011 and who is retiring. Kinsch serves on the board of several national …

Luxembourg-based Quintet Private Bank on Thursday said that it has named Chris Allen as Group CEO. Allen, who spent the past 15 years moving up the ranks at HSBC, brings over three decades of financial services experience to the role and will take up the …

With macroeconomic factors and market sentiment dragging down yields, investors are wondering what to do with their real estate investments. For one of the most capital-intensive asset classes, isn't rising interest generally a bad sign? “Conventional …

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 …

Top-5: the largest Article 9 ‘dark green’ impact funds

Blackrock’s Burch to replace Dierick at ING Luxembourg

Alain Kinsch appointed as new Chairman of LuxSE

HSBC’s Chris Allen named Group CEO at Quintet

Real estate as permanent inflation hedge is 'nonsense'

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