Asset Servicing

The 2025 stock market got off to a turbulent start. The once unwavering confidence in U.S. equities—particularly the Magnificent 7—is beginning to show cracks. At the same time, European and Chinese stock markets have surged out of the gate, a scenario few investors anticipated at the end of 2024, given the prevailing narrative of American exceptionalism.

Vincent Juvyns will join ING Belgium as chief investment strategist on 15 April, after twelve years at J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

Sustainability experts have reached an agreement on an objective approach for calculating avoided CO₂ emissions. On Thursday, a dozen asset managers introduced a harmonized, open methodology that allows for meaningful comparisons of economic activities and investments in this area. Until now, parties were able to use vastly different reference scenarios in such calculations.

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.

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.

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.