Investment Officer

Outsourcing, kickback fees, alternative investments, ESG challenges and competition with Ireland were among the topics of the most popular columns published on Investment Officer Luxembourg in 2023.

This year’s overview of the most read articles on Investment Officer Luxembourg demonstrates that readers are highly attracted to articles about financial regulation and supervision of investment funds and management companies in the Grand Duchy.

In 2024, the investment landscape will evolve with fixed income markets rebounding, equity markets diversifying beyond the ‘Magnificent Seven’, and private markets favouring operationally robust mid-market firms.

Investment Officer has previewed 2024 with specific articles looking at fixed income, at equities and at private markets:

The European Commission has cleared the acquisition of Belgium’s largest private bank Degroof Petercam by CA Indosuez, a subsidiary of the Paris-based Crédit Agricole group.

The Commission said on Monday that it concluded that the proposed concentration does not raise competition concerns given the limited market positions of the companies involved.

This week’s overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other people news includes updates from Better Finance, Ostrum Asset Management, Invesco and Columbia Threadneedle.

About 85 percent of Europe’s asset management activity takes place in six countries: the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy, data from Efama’s 2023 Asset Management Report shows.

Luxembourg last year remained among the most expensive domiciles for investment funds in Europe in all three investment categories, according to a research report released on Monday by the European Securities and Markets Authority, Esma.

The European Council and the European Parliament on Thursday reached a preliminary agreement on a new European directive mandating corporate social responsibility for large companies, but that will, following lobby pressure, exclude the financial sector.

Europe’s top supervisory body for the insurance sector on Thursday launched a new climate disaster data initiative that will help supervisors, the industry and policy makers better understand insurance exposures and losses from climate and nature related catastrophes.

It’s called the Catastrophe Data Hub. The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, known as Eiopa, said the hub is an open-source collection of catastrophe risk data at European level.  

This week’s overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other people news includes updates from DWS and Candriam.