Investment Officer Luxembourg

It is over a year since the end of the transition period that saw Brexit come into full effect and as regards financial services regulation, the UK still appears to be searching for a new direction. Or maybe this is the plan. Could the strategy be to talk about change for a domestic political audience, while keeping real divergence to a minimum? 

Issuance of ESG debt in Europe almost doubled last year as more sovereign and supranational issuers entered the market and governments adopted sustainable finance programmes. The Association for Financial Markets in Europe sees more growth this year due to greater participation by the corporate sector and the potential of the ESG securitisation market.

Conventional stock market wisdom says investors should buy when the cannons roar and sell when the stock market hears the clarion call. The cannons are literally roaring today. But does this reasoning hold true?

Author Ben Carlson has written extensively on the relationship between war and stock market performance. However, the relationship between geopolitical crises and market performance is not as obvious as you might think, he argues.

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Global financial markets are on tenterhooks on Tuesday, 22-2-22, after Russian President Vladimir Putin late on Monday recognised the separatists in the east of the Ukraine’s and ordered his troops into Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions. 

Putin’s aggression means investors now face fresh uncertainty as the ongoing geopolitical developments will have consequences for the economy, for monetary policy, for cohesion among European countries and for transatlantic relations. 

Luxembourg Raifs appeal to clients worldwide, January data from its business register shows. QIC, the Queensland Investment Corporation in Australia, issued an infrastructure investment Raif together with Carne Global. Ocorian supported Singapore-based SilkRoad with a new real estate fund.

The difference between US 10-year and 2-year yields has fallen to around 45 basis points. That is a flattening of the US yield curve of almost a full percentage point in the last four months. It raises the question of whether a new recession is imminent.

Luxembourg has a promising potential to further build on its global hub status for investment funds by encouraging management companies to expand their businesses into international fund distribution, according to Xavier Parain, CEO of FundRock, Luxembourg’s largest third-party manager of investment funds.