As real estate markets worldwide move in tandem by showing clear signs of a downturn, two major international financial institutions have reiterated their concerns over the housing market’s potential impact on financial stability. Both the European …

Infrastructure is not immune to the current economic malaise, but it is important to isolate macroeconomic variables for each investment. “Analysing sectors or asset classes is not enough: you have to analyse each asset to determine its macro impact.” So …

Many investors are on the fence about re-entering the badly battered bond market when the bottom may be near. The smart ones will want to enter the market well before interest rates hit their peak, says Michael Gitlin, partner and head of fixed income at …

Marguerite II, a pan-European infrastructure fund in Luxembourg, said it has acquired full ownership of Red de Calor de Cuenca (RCC), a project company which will build and run a a greenfield heating network in Cuenca, a Spanish city in the Castilla La …

BlocHome, a Luxembourg blockchain real estate investment platform, has arranged a guarantee that will allow it to finance the first security token-based residential project in Europe, an eight million euro housing project in Luxembourg known as the …

FundRock, a Luxembourg-based third-party management company part of the Apex Group, said on Monday that it has expanded its relationship with UK-based fund manager Fundsmith to now include distribution services in Europe, particularly Italy. In addition …

The European Securities and Markets Authority on Monday said it sees a need to create a common supervisory culture in the EU and believes that national financial supervisors need to intensify their horizontal, cross-border cooperation. It also …

HSBC has chosen Clearstream, Deutsche Börse’s Luxembourg-based post-trading service provider, as its global partner for administering investment fund activities for fund order routing, safekeeping, settlement and distribution support services. Vestima, …

As fund managers and investors across the 27 countries in the European Union continue to question the union's approach to its sustainable finance framework, Brussels has made clear it will take its time before addressing growing confusion over …

European financials are in the spotlight again. And once again, it is not because of anything good. The CDS spread on Credit Suisse has spurted up over the past few days. Is this just the tip of the iceberg? Many “investors” and “gurus” are eager to point …

Synchronised housing market downturn triggers nerve pains

‘Infrastructure is an attractive inflation hedge’

‘If interest rates peak in six months, now is the time to act’

Marguerite closes heating network investment in Spain

Tokenised real estate project plows ahead with a guarantee

Fundsmith to distribute funds in Italy via FundRock

‘Ambitious’ Esma wants common supervisory culture in EU

HSBC picks Clearstream for fund processing, distribution

EU in no rush to address confusion over greenwashing

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