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July 18, 2024
Laws and Regulations

ESAs support a SFDR 2.0 ‘product labelling regime’

Recommendations for a new product labelling regime under the EU's sustainable finance rules are aimed at enhancing clarity and effectiveness of sustainability disclosures for financial products. Sebastiaan Hooghiemstra at Loyens & Loeff reviews the …
July 18, 2024
Transfers

Transfer Thursday: Amundi, GGF, Partners, Citi, KPMG

This week’s overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other career news includes updates from the Amundi Institute, the Green for Growth Fund (GGF), Partners Group, Citibank, and KPMG Luxembourg. Guy Stear Guy Stear (photo) has been appointed …
July 17, 2024
Laws and Regulations

Luxembourg tax authority to get special AML unit

Luxembourg has decided to establish a special anti-money laundering (AML) unit within its tax administration following parliamentary approval. The head of financial supervisor CSSF, meanwhile, expressed his concern over the use of 'outdated systems' at …
July 17, 2024
Investing

Illiquidity, complexity restrain allocations to alternatives

Investment advisors in both the US and Europe have been expressing a desire to increase allocations to alternatives, but the average allocation has remained modest, according to gatekeeper and fund selecter surveys by Cerulli Associates and PGIM. …
July 17, 2024
Investing,News

EU faces significant investment crisis, report warns

A new report by Finance Watch, a Brussels-based public interest group, has highlighted an impending investment crisis in the European Union. According to the report, only a third of the EU's essential investments can be funded by capital markets, leaving …
July 17, 2024

Summer rally looming

In the years when a new US president is elected, there is often a summer rally. Typically, July is the month when the media pays more attention to the election. This is due to the Republican and Democratic conventions that take place in July and August. …
July 16, 2024
Investing

UK wealth fund sparks interest among infra investors

The U.K.’s first female Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, last week announced an ambitious plan to boost private sector financing in the British economy. If it succeeds, the plan could reverberate throughout Europe and lead to a significant boost in …
July 16, 2024

Norway state pension fund now world’s biggest asset owner

Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the Government Pension Fund Global, has dethroned its Japanese counterpart and is now the world's largest asset owner. Recently, the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) announced that it achieved a return of …
July 15, 2024
Investing

Trump’s looming tariffs could trigger inflation shock

If Donald Trump is re-elected as US President, a big change in trade policy could happen. Trump wants to impose a 60 percent tariff on Chinese goods, causing economists to worry about a new "Trump Trade War 2.0" and higher inflation. This would likely end …
July 15, 2024
Opinion

Schade Deutschland, alles ist vorbei

'No,' my column this week is not about the German football team that was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the European Football Championship by now-finalist Spain. However, I am writing this column before the semi-final of Orange, so if I 'jinxed' that …