Raymond Frenken

Raymond Frenken

At the ECB Forum in Sintra, Portugal, ECB President Christine Lagarde committed herself to backing a rate hike of 25 basis points on 21 July, Photo: ECB
Investing
July 20, 2022

ECB seen doubling up with 50bp rate hike on Thursday

Pressed by persistently high inflation in the eurozone, the European Central Bank on Thursday may…
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News
July 19, 2022

Modern pension funds embrace ESG as ‘good ancestors’

Social responsibility, sustainability, ESG and SRI are more than buzzwords for the world’s leading…
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Helen Dean, CEO of the National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) in the United Kingdom. Photo: Nest.
Asset Managers
July 19, 2022

‘Steward’ Nest seeks high standards in UK pensions

In the United Kingdom, the National Employment Savings Trust, known as Nest, is the country’s…
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The Zizkov television tower in Prague. Photo: Robert Eklund via Unsplash CC-BY-2.0
Asset Allocation
July 14, 2022

European pension funds slow to recognise infra benefits

While Canadian and Australian pension funds are set to increase their investments in infrastructure…
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Agnes Cai, Chief Executive Officer at Foord Asset Management Singapore. Photo: Foord.
Products
July 12, 2022

South Africa’s Foord targets Australia via Luxembourg

Foord Asset Management, a firm with South African roots and a Luxembourg presence since 2013, is…
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Patrick de Cambourg, chair of the EU Taskforce on Sustainability Reporting Standards. Photo: Mazars.
Laws and Regulations
July 11, 2022

EU places ESG reporting on par with financial data

A new EU law from 2025 will require companies in Europe to accept a future in which their reporting…
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World Pensions Council panel in Paris, with Gert Dijkstra, senior managing director at APG.
Asset Managers
July 7, 2022

APG says EU regime for impact funds creates greenwashing risk

The increasingly stringent EU regime for green finance was discussed in Paris on Wednesday at the…
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A BMW manufacturing plant in Leipzig, Germany. Photo: BMW CC BY-SA 2.0 de
News
July 5, 2022

First German trade deficit in 31 years shows EU’s vulnerability

Germany has unexpectedly reported its first trade deficit since 1991. The reversal of the trade…
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Raymond Frenken, editorial manager of Investment Officer Luxembourg.
Opinion
July 1, 2022

In Flux: Industry 4.0 as the ‘new Ucits’

In Luxembourg’s financial sector, ‘the new Ucits’ is an informal but widely recognised label that…
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Left to right: Moderator Alexandre Hector, KPMG; Tom Slocock, iCapital; Manuel San Salvador, Antwort; and Olivier Dauman, Indosuez. Photo: LPEA.
Investing
June 30, 2022

Wider access to private equity for HNWIs not without risk

Private Equity in the coming years is set to attract a wider range of investors, in particular those…
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EY Luxembourg presents its 2022 attractiveness survey.
Sector
June 29, 2022

Post-Brexit financial boom in Luxembourg is over, EY says

Luxembourg’s post-Brexit boom in financial sector relocations and foreign direct investment is over…
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Raymond Frenken, editorial manager of Investment Officer Luxembourg.
Opinion
June 24, 2022

In Flux: A black Bloomsday

Luxembourg has witnessed that European integration still has its limits, even when war rages on…
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Professor Daniel Kahneman at the 2022 Amundi World Investment Forum in Paris. Photo: Amundi
June 23, 2022

Kahneman: better decisions make world a better place

In an interview with Investment Officer, Nobel Economics Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, speaks about…
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Vianden castle in Luxembourg. Photo via Unsplash.
Asset Managers
June 22, 2022

Luxembourg retains lead as funds hub, Ireland catches up

Although its overall market share contracted slightly, Luxembourg last year held on to its number…
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