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25/07/2011 
Luxembourg transfers 98.3m EUR in withholding tax in 2010
In 2010, Luxembourg transferred 98.3m Euros to EU Member States and their dependent territories. This money was withheld from interest payments to non-residents under the provisions of the EU Savings read more
22/07/2011 
Luxembourg stock exchange reinforces its lead in GDRs
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange has reached the milestone of 250 issuers of depositary receipts.
These issuers come from seventeen countries in regions as varied as East Asia, South Asia, central read more
18/07/2011 
KIID: Necessity is the mother of all inventions (part II)
Part II of the interview with Christopher Stuart–Sinclair and Lou Kiesch from Deloitte Luxembourg: Though so far fund distributors have reacted cautiously to the KIID because of the bad image it read more
15/07/2011 
KIID: Necessity is the mother of all inventions (part I)
Since 1 July 2011 the Key Investor Document (KIID) has become compulsory for all UCITS funds, although a grandfathering clause permits delayed implementation through until July 2012. But as a survey read more
15/07/2011 
News about the Luxembourg financial centre
The LFF Mediawatch provides a bimonthly overview of the national and international press coverage of issues that are of direct or indirect concern to the Luxembourg financial centre. read more
11/07/2011 
Islamic finance starts thinking outside the box
Last week’s IFN Europe conference in London, organised by Islamic Finance News, was refreshing. Packed with practitioners prepared to ask difficult questions, we had the impression that “Islamic” read more
06/07/2011 
“Luxembourg has stolen a march on other fund domiciles”
Sébastien Danloy was recently appointed as RBC Dexia’s new Managing Director in Luxembourg. After gaining professional experience in Ireland, the UK and France, he came back to Luxembourg, where his read more
05/07/2011 
Avoir droit de cité à l’Université du Luxembourg
Les étudiants, qui décident de faire leurs études à Luxembourg, se trouvent inévitablement dans une structure très jeune qui est encore en mouvement, vu que l’université a seulement été fondée en read more
04/07/2011 
How to conquer the world (from Luxembourg)
The trend towards centralising complex businesses at a single, functional headquarters is attracting attention to Luxembourg as an international business hub. However, “Luxembourg is not as well read more
04/07/2011 
Ernst-Wilhem Contzen nouveau président de PROFIL
En sa réunion du 1er juillet 2011, le Conseil d’administration de la Fédération des professionnels du secteur financier, Luxembourg (PROFIL) a élu, à l'unanimité, Ernst Wilhelm Contzen à la read more
01/07/2011 
News about the Luxembourg financial centre
The LFF Mediawatch provides a bimonthly overview of the national and international press coverage of issues that are of direct or indirect concern to the Luxembourg financial centre. read more
24/06/2011 
Every economic decision has a moral consequence
“There is no such thing as an ethically neutral business leader.” These were the words of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State, as he welcomed 100 global business leaders and academics to read more
23/06/2011 
Ethical funds: putting a label on the tin
The JPMorgan Funds umbrella recently launched an interesting new subfund: the Global Catholic Ethical Balanced Fund. Two things stand out: firstly, a particular set of ethics is defined and secondly, read more
20/06/2011 
Let your investment funds go green
In order to give customers assurance that the fund they are investing in really is “green”, the Luxembourg labelling agency LuxFLAG, today at its General Meeting launched its Environment Label, which read more
17/06/2011 
EFAMA elects Claude Kremer as its new President
EFAMA, the European Fund and Asset Management Association, has announced today that Mr Claude Kremer was elected President of EFAMA for a two-year term. The election of the new EFAMA head took place read more
15/06/2011 
News about the Luxembourg financial centre
The LFF Mediawatch provides a bimonthly overview of the national and international press coverage of issues that are of direct or indirect concern to the Luxembourg financial centre. read more
10/06/2011 
Emerging markets : the last frontier for « bottom-up » investors
When the global financial crisis brought stock markets crashing down all over the world, people commented that classical portfolio diversification theory had become a waste of time. In a global read more
09/06/2011 
Passation de pouvoir à la tête de l’ALFI
Le nouveau président de l’association luxembourgeoise des fonds d’investissement (ALFI ) s’appelle Marc Saluzzi. Il succède à Claude Kremer dont le mandat a pris fin après quatre années d’exercice. read more
09/06/2011 
Luxembourg for Finance joins forces with Qatar Financial Centre Authority
To foster common interests of Luxembourg and Qatar financial institutions, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed on 9 June 2011 between Luxembourg for Finance and Qatar Financial Centre read more
01/06/2011 
News about the Luxembourg financial centre
The LFF Mediawatch provides a bimonthly overview of the national and international press coverage of issues that are of direct or indirect concern to the Luxembourg financial centre. read more