Investment Officer Luxembourg

Luxembourg companies from small to large are taking strides in the realm of virtual assets. This market is still under construction and regulatory and infrastructural elements are still pending. Several companies were represented at the recent Luxembourg For Finance Digital Capital Raising webinar, along with a representative of Luxembourg’s financial regulator CSSF.

The EU braces for a legal battle over plans to label nuclear energy and gas as sustainable transition fuels. Luxembourg and Austria are preparing steps to have the proposed delegated act annulled.

As the asset management industry embraces wealthtech, its business model has suddenly become very scalable. That also explains the interest of private equity, writes Han Dieperink in his column for Investment Officer this week.

The NATO-Russia dispute over Ukraine is fought on many boards at once. In addition to the threat of a ground war, disinformation campaigns and cyber attacks are deployed. The financial sector is particularly vulnerable. Attacks on financial service providers have increased sharply during the last two years. Asset managers are far more vulnerable than they often realise.

As the year of the tiger starts, it is time to get excited about Chinese equities, writes InvestmentOfficer/FondsNieuws columnist Han Dieperink.

Today, the year of the tiger starts. A year ago at the start of the year of the ox, it was time to swap Chinese stocks for Chinese bonds. Economic growth had peaked and so did the earnings cycle. Moreover, Chinese stocks had risen sharply during the first year of the corona crisis.

FundRock, a unit of Apex Group, said on Tuesday that it will serve as in-house manager of the Premium Maritime Credit Fund, a new Luxembourg-based fund that first closed in January after raising 110 million dollars from European institutions and family offices.

Universal-Investment, the third-largest management company in Luxembourg, said on Tuesday that it has been appointed as the management company for the Luxembourg fund portfolio of Switzerland’s Fisch Asset Management. Increasing costs and regulatory requirements are mentioned as reasons for the transfer.

Net sales of investment funds in Europe were at their lowest in November - apart from bonds - as investors worried about the new Covid-19 Omicron variant while awaiting reactions by the world’s central banks to rising inflation, the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) said on Monday.