Renewable energy stocks have shown underperformance relative to the broader markets for years, even though the long-term outlook remains favourable. High interest rates and inflation have created many headwinds. The cost of setting up solar or wind …

Six months after the rollout of Eltif 2.0, the BlackRock private markets team believes this updated wrapper has the potential to become the vehicle of choice for private market investments, according to a paper the firm released on Thursday. “We see …

If you want to be considered wealthy in Luxembourg, you’ll need to earn an annual gross income of at least 365,000 euro. According to a recent survey, that's the magic number that Luxembourg residents believe separates the wealthy from the rest. …

This week’s overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other career news includes updates from Generali, the University of Luxembourg, Euroclear, La Française and DLA Piper. Dirk Zetzsche Professor Dirk Zetzsche (photo) of the University of …

Our preceding article on Investment Officer addressed how Luxembourg's CSSF is helping asset managers prepare for the introduction of the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (Dora) and highlighted that the Dutch supervisory authority, the AFM, would …

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has announced its acquisition of private equity data provider Preqin for 3.2 billion dollars. This strategic move aims to "bring the principles of indexing to private markets," according to BlackRock CEO Larry …

The EU has set out its objectives for the digitalisation of its economy. New technologies have the potential to support the integration of capital markets, improve the provision of financial services and make them more efficient for the benefit of …

Luxembourg’s financial regulator CSSF plans to make public an online register of European long-term investment funds (Eltifs) on 31 July. The register will be updated every month with new registrations. Luxembourg’s financial centre stands to do very well …

Investors seeking to achieve real change through their impact investment will find that the passive approach isn’t as effective as an active one, explained John William Olsen (photo), fund manager of the M&G (Lux) Positive Impact fund and the Global …

Data-dependent, that was perhaps the word we heard most often from the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) in recent months. The term describes the ECB's modus operandi: the bank would decide what to do with interest rates on a meeting-by-meeting …

Supply chain disruptions weigh on solar and wind

BlackRock sees Eltif2 wrapper as vehicle of choice

Wealth starts with an income of at least €365,000

Transfer Thursday: Generali, Uni.lu, LPEA, DLA Piper

Becoming Dora compliant still is a challenge

With Preqin, BlackRock brings indexing to private markets

Open finance: an ambitious but tortuous journey

Luxembourg to publish new Eltifs monthly

‘Passively Paris-aligning a portfolio doesn’t make sense’

Inimitable ECB