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The "Electric Tour" was organised by BMW Belux for the third consecutive year, in which four competition winners swapped their combustion engine car for a 100% electric BMW for a month.
To meet the climate challenge, change must happen now. At the European Union level, numerous legislative projects have been initiated. They will keep all economic actors, starting with financial operators, involved for many years to come.
In parallel with private equity strategies making headlines over the last 10 years with record-breaking deals and soaring returns, a batch of US and European asset managers have leveraged overall investor appetite toward the asset class and have gone public in 2021, reinforcing the trend that started a decade ago.
Many people are now flying out on their Christmas holidays. But this year, they can leave their cars at home and forget the stress of finding a car park or the cost of taxis.
Fighting climate change in a collaborative effort has become a long-term commitment and contributes to reforestation efforts in Luxembourg and Bangladesh.
Early January, the Ministry of Justice filed a bill of law aiming at transposing the EU Whistleblowing Directive on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law ("whistleblowers").
In the face of the elevated economic uncertainty, quality companies able to generate steady earnings – such as those targeted by NAM’s Global Stable Equity Strategy – are in a better position to achieve growth.
In addition to conventional equities (which have great potential but fluctuate frequently and are risky), fixed-income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have also enabled investors to integrate notions of sustainability into new or existing portfolios.
Business valuation professionals have to navigate through high inflation, rising interest rates, the war in Ukraine and its induced energy price hikes when performing the valuation of illiquid assets, making it even more complex.
EY Luxembourg’s latest Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) Club event gave occasion to conducting officers and valuation professionals to exchange on the current challenges of the everchanging sector.
Yves Even, Partner and leader for commercial and industrial companies at EY is touring the country to meet global leaders settled in Luxembourg and share their stories. Sudhakar Sivaji, CFO of Aperam, accepted to share his insights on what’s on top of his personal and business agenda: Sustainability.
Are you planning to become a student or apprentice? To ensure you can work with peace of mind, LALUX has developed a unique insurance package of comprehensive protection for your needs.
Four years after the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), data protection and compliance remain a challenge – as recent colossal fines amounting up to 764 million euros showed recently.
No doubt you are subscribed to some insurance policies, but are you sufficiently well covered? How could you tell if it weren’t? Here are the nine commandments for being perfectly insured.
Regulatory evolutions such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) are confirming the integration of ESG factors into non-financial information. How will this help valuation professionals in quantifying ESG factors? Christophe Vandendorpe and Elena Moisei from EY Luxembourg share their views.
The Asset Servicing sector, one of the pillars of the financial services economy, evolves in a rapidly changing environment and shows very specific needs.
After having opened its offices in Luxembourg, DataQube, developer of the world’s first standalone edge data centre module, has raised €26 million to accelerate the commercialization of a new generation of modular data centres with a significantly reduced carbon footprint.
In 2021, Rockids responded to parents’ needs by offering three Montessori crèches approved by the Ministry of Education and which accept Childcare Service Vouchers.
Spurred on by COVID-19 and other prominent politically charged agendas such as Brexit, and climate change, we are witnessing an increase in development in data and technology.
The fund industry has shown its resilience since the end of 2020. The first half of 2021 has confirmed this trend and even augurs new records for the industry, which has proven to be a tool of choice in the face of the environmental challenges.
With ATAD2 being enforced as of tax year 2022, Luxembourg’s reverse hybrid entity rules will kick in, gathering much attention from taxpayers in Debt funds.
EY has recently released its flagship tax publication, the “Worldwide Corporate Tax Guide 2021”, a guide summarizing the corporate tax systems in more than 160 jurisdictions – an essential for every taxpayer.
Earlier this year, when we first started discussing the key topics which would feature in our October 28th Insights conference, we looked at several leading trends.
Luxembourg might seem like an obvious destination for business events, but sometimes a place needs a little extra boost. Hence the Luxembourg Convention Bureau.
High quality childcare, in an English and Luxembourgish speaking environment, provided near to your work is what the new crèche Montessori by Rockids is all about.
Valuation oversight is definitely a theme at the forefront of many AIFM agendas and more specifically, the efficient organization and digitalization of the valuation function and oversight. This was one of the highlights of the round table organized by EY Luxembourg.
Following the Covid 19 outbreak, raising capital became more cumbersome. Multinational groups could use intragroup financial guarantees to decrease their cost of funding. New guidance has been published to price such guarantees at arm’s length conditions, increasing scrutiny by tax authorities.
Consumers’ habits are constantly evolving, and they expect businesses to provide an efficient personalised experience as well as quality services that meet their needs
The Philharmonie Luxembourg, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and Grand Théâtre de la Ville: three of Luxembourg’s major cultural institutions, continue their innovative red bridge project, building bridges, both geographically and artistically, between music, dance, performance and visual arts.
Private Equity (“PE”) has undergone impressive growth over the last two decades and is still expected to double its assets under management to more than $9 trillion by 2025.
We often hear that it is good to have a life insurance policy in order to transfer lump sums to family and friends, or to be used as a means of savings by building up additional capital in the longer term.
What does sustainability mean to you and your business? In Luxembourg, the scrutiny of businesses' environmental, social, and corporate governance programs looks set to further intensify. But does this shift spell more opportunity or an increase in risk? UBS presents three simple steps for any business to become more sustainable, purposeful… and potentially more profitable.
With its new, sustainable and exclusive Visa credit cards, Banque Raiffeisen is strengthening its active commitment to the environment and the climate.
With the start of 2021, the new CO2 tax came along with it to encourage the switch to more environmentally friendly vehicles in order to respond to the sustainability goals of the Grand-Duchy.
Business leaders tend to freeze once they hear one of these words. However, they are not as cold as current times where we long for sunny days to return, especially with us still facing confinement in one way or another. Grab a coffee, get cozy and let’s dive within the warmer world of liquidation!
In this article, we will explore the recent updates of DAC6 and their impact on you, together with an outline of the type of organisational structure that may be appropriate.
The message is clear – it is about trying to catch up with Luxembourg as the incumbent preferred EU hub to establish, amongst others, private credit holding structures.
In this interview, Christophe Vandendorpe and Pierre Kuntzelmann from EY Luxembourg´s Strategy and Transactions team, discuss prepping your business for a successful sale.
