“In 2018, 21 banks active [in Luxemburg] for more than three years had a cost to income ratio in excess of 100%, and there could be more this year,” CSSF director general Claude Marx said recently. As in the rest of Europe, Luxembourg’s B2C banks in …

A sudden liquidity drought is a serious threat to investors in European corporate bonds, so warns Ludovic Colin, manager of the Vontobel Bond Global Aggregate Fund. It means corporate bond markets on the continent are vulnerable to a correction. There’s a …

Millennials are more interested in thematic investing than other age groups. Especially funds that focus on sustainability, education, infrastructure innovation, food and urbanisation are popular with Generation Y. This transpires from the results of a …

The year 2018 saw a 37% jump in the number of worldwide single family offices to no fewer than 7,300. Altogether family offices manage assets of nearly 6 trillion dollars. The survey of Campden Wealth shows that there upward of 7,300 single family offices …

Factor investing in bonds is making inroads with both institutional and wholesale investors, according to a study by Invesco. However, there’s still a perceived lack of suitable products. Approximately 70 percent of institutional investors and 78 percent …

CapitalatWork is investigating the possibility of making small acquisitions in the Netherlands. The Belgian asset manager states it already has sufficient critical mass in its home market and the Luxembourg market, but is also looking at acquisition …

Airbnb will move the processing of all EU payments from the UK to Luxembourg as of 2020 because of Brexit. The home rental platform opened a subsidiary in Luxembourg at the end of last year and was granted a payment institution license in the country last …

In a number of recent judgements, the Court of Appeal in Brussels has confirmed previous case law of the court of first instance that the subscription tax on Luxembourg SICAVs is in violation of the double taxation treaty. Tiberghien Lawyers was one of …

Luxembourg banks at the crossroads

‘Liquidity crisis threatens bond market’

It’s all about themes for millennial investors

Number of family offices soars worldwide

Bond factor investing popularity on the rise

CapitalatWork in search of acquisitions in the Netherlands

Airbnb moves EU payments base to Luxembourg

Luxembourg SICAVs can reclaim Belgian subscription tax and withholding taxes