Luxembourg slips in green finance ranking
Luxembourg slipped two places in an international ranking of the quality and depth of green finance offerings in financial centres. Luxembourg ranked in 6th place, putting it in the top 15 green finance centres. The Grand Duchy is second in the EU in the ranking, behind Amsterdam, which came out ahead of Zurich, London, Oslo and San Francisco.
In the previous edition of the assessment, Luxembourg had ranked 4th.
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Is a residential property bubble building in Luxembourg?
The price of an average house in Luxembourg has now risen well above €1m, making the Grand Duchy Europe’s second-most expensive housing market after Monaco. The regulators have just announced plans to impose tough minimum deposit requirements on new housing loans. Are these signs of speculative exuberance and is there a risk to the banking sector? Should investors be worried?
US asset managers win Morningstar’s best fund house awards
T. Rowe Price has won the Morningstar Luxembourg Fund Award for best fund house, the data provider announced on Thursday during a ceremony at the Centre Culturel ‘Schéiss’ in Luxembourg. T. Rowe Price also won the award for best fixed income fund house. Neuberger Berman, another US asset manager, received the honours for best equity fund house.