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Investment Officer Luxembourg is introducing l’Hebdo IO Luxembourg — a dedicated weekly newsletter in French.

Private debt continues to expand in Luxembourg, but regulators, fund managers and legal experts warn that the market is becoming harder to navigate

This week’s overview of career moves in and around the Luxembourg financial centre includes hires at Nordea IM, Palana, and Lombard Odier, a promotion at Sofindev, and a new business development lead at Oceanside Financial Services.

Trump’s tariff push revives an old trade theory — and investors should pay attention to what Samuelson really meant.

Luxembourg may be leading the charge in Eltif launches under the revised framework, but elsewhere in the Benelux they are proving a tougher nut to crack.

New BaFin draft guidelines clarify that investor involvement in asset-level decisions risks disqualifying a fund as an AIF under EU rules—a shift with implications far beyond Germany, writes Sebastiaan Hooghiemstra at Loyens & Loeff.

Joseph Pinto, chief executive of M&G’s asset management division, has downplayed concerns over recent client outflows, saying the group’s long-term strategy and strong investment performance in continental Europe position it well to return to net growth in 2025.

Throughout the financial sector, technology is an important topic and leads to major changes in procedures, with financial companies themselves and also with the regulators. The new rules in Luxembourg for prospectuses should make life easier. In the Netherlands, the regulators lay a focus on the Digital Operations Resilience Act which gives an additional layer of supervision.

The European Long-Term Investment Fund (Eltif) regime is entering a new phase, driven by a surge in local fund launches and rising domestic demand across Europe.

“The total value of Dutch securities holdings reached nearly 3,500 billion euros in 2024.” It’s one of those headlines—this one from the Dutch Central Bank (DNB)—that most investors overlook, let alone actually read. But behind that enormous figure lies a world that once again shows how deeply entrenched the traditional investment industry remains in an outdated mantra.