Christophe Santer is a columnist for Investment Officer Luxembourg. A Luxembourg native, Santer has nearly two decades of experience in fund administration, investor services, and private markets. He also works as director of business development manager at bunch.
Luxembourg, the Singapore of Europe? Or the other way around?
The comparison is increasingly common. Luxembourg is often described as the Singapore of Europe. It is meant as praise, and rightly so. But the comparison deserves refinement, because it cuts both ways.
Promoting Luxembourg is not sales. It’s translation.
In Asia, Luxembourg’s challenge is not explaining its rules, but translating stability, judgment and trust across cultures and expectations globally, Christophe Santer finds.
Schengen’s lessons for global fund distribution
Fund passports were built on the same vision that shaped the Schengen Zone: shared trust and borderless movement. Luxembourg remains at the center of that idea.
What private markets can learn from hospitality
As AI transforms fund administration, the true differentiator will not be process but people. The private-markets industry can learn from hospitality: excellence is how you make people feel.
The great intermediary reboot
Private markets no longer run in straight lines. Intermediaries are merging, data is flowing, and Luxembourg may quietly become the nerve center of the new system.
The reverse silk road: why Asian money now lands in Luxembourg
Asian investors are turning to Luxembourg as their preferred gateway to global private markets. The flows are quiet but transformative.
The death of IPOs, long live Luxembourg
The public markets are shrinking, but private capital is booming, and Luxembourg is quietly building the exchange of the future.
Private equity in a higher-for-longer world
As interest rates stay elevated, private equity firms must relearn how to create value, with Luxembourg once again in the engine room of global strategy.
Family offices: finance’s new identity crisis
Family offices blur traditional financial roles. They are asset owners, asset managers, and wealth advisors simultaneously. Can the industry manage this complexity effectively?
The ESG blind spot: AI’s social toll on global labor
As artificial intelligence takes over functions once handled by offshore teams, asset managers and their services firms face a new frontier, one that blends automation gains with urgent ESG questions.