Investment Officer

This week’s overview of industry appointments in and outside Luxembourg includes updates from State Street, Vistra, RBC Bluebay Asset Management, and Cyberr.

Franklin Templeton has secured approval from Luxembourg’s financial regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), to launch the first fully tokenised UCITS fund in the country.

This week’s overview of transfers and appointments in the fund and asset management community in and outside Luxembourg includes updates from Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, Zedra and HSBC.

More than half of the investment funds and ETFs sold in Europe now consist of passive investments. Over the past three years, this market share has increased from 34% to 56%. This trend is largely driven by two major US firms, BlackRock and Vanguard.

Institutional investors are predicting significant growth and risk-adjusted returns in the hedge fund sector over the next few years, according to new global research from Beacon Platform Inc., a provider of portfolio analytics and risk management solutions.

This week’s overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other career news in the fund and asset management community in and outside Luxembourg includes updates from Crédit Mutuel Asset Management, the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma), M&G, Schroders, Carmignac and Vistra.

Luxembourg’s finance minister, Gilles Roth, has outlined plans to reform the country’s profit-sharing bonus regime and expat tax policies to enhance its attractiveness to international talent.

This week’s overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other career news in the international fund and asset management community includes updates from Altaroc, Schroders, Euroclear and Candriam.

The Luxembourg private debt market has reached a new milestone, surpassing 500 billion dollars in assets under management (AuM) according to the 2024 Private Debt Fund Survey, published by KPMG in collaboration with the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI). The survey reveals a 21.5 percent growth in AuM, reaching 510 billion dollars, continuing its strong upward trajectory despite global market turbulence.

This week’s overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other career news in the international fund and asset management community includes updates from M&G, BDO, Governance.com, the Luxembourg School of Business and the Luxembourg Competition Association.