Spacs – special purpose acquisition vehicles – had a very good year in 2021, with some 600 Spacs raising 165 billion dollars but they are, like the rest of the economy, adapting to the new post-Covid economic reality. Many investment banking and legal …

Western leaders are struggling with their response to Putin's latest challenge. They agree that it should look like a unified position. In this respect, they are mainly writing down measures that the United States and Western Europe are prepared to take …

Global financial markets were in turmoil on Thursday in a clear sign that investors had not expected Russian President Vladimir Putin to make an aggressive move into Ukraine by launching a full-scale invasion. “Even just yesterday people were dismissing …

Issuance of ESG bonds and loans in Europe almost doubled last year as more sovereign and supranational issuers entered the market and governments adopted sustainable finance programmes, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme) said. Afme, a …

It is over a year since the end of the transition period that saw Brexit come into full effect and as regards financial services regulation, the UK still appears to be searching for a new direction. Or maybe this is the plan. Could the strategy be to talk …

Conventional stock market wisdom says investors should buy when the cannons roar and sell when the stock market hears the clarion call. The cannons are literally roaring today. But does this reasoning hold true? Author Ben Carlson has written extensively …

With their stable income and preference for defensive stocks, conservative dividend strategies can be seen as an alternative to government bonds at times of stock market uncertainty. Are they really? Yes, says fund manager Thomas Schüssler of the …

Global financial markets are on tenterhooks on Tuesday, 22-2-22, after Russian President Vladimir Putin late on Monday recognised the separatists in the east of the Ukraine’s and ordered his troops into Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Putin’s …

A total of 31 new Reserved Alternative Investment Funds, known as Raifs, were created in Luxembourg in January, down from 75 new Raifs that were launched in December and up from 27 such funds that were created the same month a year earlier, according to …

The difference between US 10-year and 2-year yields has fallen to around 45 basis points. That is a flattening of the US yield curve of almost a full percentage point in the last four months. It raises the question of whether a new recession is imminent. …

Spacs still prospering despite challenging conditions

The second Cold War is hot

Strategists analyse market shock triggered by Putin's aggression

European ESG debt issuance almost doubled in 2021

Brexit: de facto equivalence seen as boon for Luxembourg

Buying when cannons roar?

Pressure on equities drives investors to dividend funds

What Putin’s aggression means for markets

Luxembourg Raifs attract a global audience

On the way to a new recession?