28 Oct 2014
Investment adviser regulatory assets under management reach USD61.7trn
Total regulatory assets under management (RAUM) reported by all investment advisers as of 7 April was USD61.7 trillion, representing a…
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24 Oct 2014
SCSp gives real estate fund managers greater choice
PwC Luxembourg is the leading professional services firm in the country with around 2,400 people. Similarly, its Real Estate and…
Luxembourg leads in AIFMD stakes
By Kavitha Ramachandran, Maitland - As the alternative investment market matures, investors are increasingly demanding far more information…
Luxembourg develops the right ecosystem to support PERE managers
A true sign of how well a fund jurisdiction is doing is the level of growth, not just in new fund formations, but asset growth within…
Annex IV reporting: the challenges of a moving target
There is no experience as the one gained in the front lines. The fund industry struggles with changing regulation, and those companies…
Full service menu to handle European regulations
It is fair to say that alternative fund managers are feeling a degree of regulatory fatigue. Every month, it seems, there are updates,…
Growing appetite for hybrid fund structures
“There has been a lot of fund activity in Luxembourg this year focused on private equity and real estate. It’s an area of growing investor…
SCSp is now part of the fund structuring toolbox
“The Special Limited Partnership (SCSp) has been successfully introduced into Luxembourg law. It is set to benefit from onshore fund…
Institutional investors to focus on fewer key relationships, survey shows
More than half (57 per cent) of institutional investors plan to narrow down the number of different alternative asset managers they work…
23 Oct 2014
Two-thirds of buy-side investors expect increase in futures trading volumes
With the derivatives markets working through new rules, market structure changes and a wave of uncertainty, many across the capital markets…
15 Oct 2014
Electronic trading of swaps jumps to 41 per cent in 2014
The share of US investors reporting they trade a portion of their overall swaps trading volume electronically jumped from 23 per cent in…
09 Oct 2014
Preqin: Liquid alternatives reach a tipping point
Over half of the respondents in Preqin’s latest bi-annual survey allocate, or plan to allocate, to liquid alternative funds, further…
08 Oct 2014
A developed and expanding financial centre
By Derek Adler (pictured), IFINA – There are many questions being asked by Investment Managers (IMs) today and relatively few satisfactory…
Regulation drives wider range of reporting solutions
With the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) which came in force last July 22, together with the introduction of the…
