Asset Owner

It is high time for asset managers to reassess their private equity allocations, argues Jeroen Blokland.

This week’s Morningstar Fund Radar shines a spotlight on global equity funds, revealing a stellar performance led by US tech giants and highlighting the political twists shaping investor sentiment worldwide.

Renewable energy stocks have shown underperformance relative to the broader markets for years, even though the long-term outlook remains favourable.

Six months after the rollout of Eltif 2.0, the BlackRock private markets team believes this updated wrapper has the potential to become the vehicle of choice for private market investment.

If you want to be considered wealthy in Luxembourg, you’ll need to earn an annual gross income of at least 365,000 euro.

This week’s overview of transfers includes updates from LPEA, Generali, the University of Luxembourg, Esma, Euroclear, La Française and DLA Piper.

Pinsent Masons sheds its light on the changing legal context for managing, registering and reporting significant cyber threats and serious ICT incidents, as per the EU’s Dora regulation that will take effect in 2025.

BlackRock’s strategic 3.2 billion dollar acquisition of U.K. data firm Preqin opens the door towards indexing private markets and can be seen as a defensive move against the threat of private equity.

New technologies have the potential to support the integration of capital markets, improve the provision of financial services and make them more efficient for the benefit of companies and citizens. Integrating them into existing business models also requires a cultural change among those who use them.

Luxembourg’s financial regulator CSSF plans to make public an online register of European long-term investment funds (Eltifs) later in in July. The register will be updated every month with new registrations.