Special Reports

Long Europe's leading domicile and servicing centre for traditional retail investment funds, Luxembourg has been taking active steps over the past few years to attract a significant share of the burge »

Calculating the size of Luxembourg's private equity industry is not an exact science. »

Luxembourg has long been an attractive jurisdiction for setting up private equity vehicles, and until 2004 the most suitable structure was the financial participation company or Soparfi, a normal comp »

Luxembourg has many attractive qualities as a domicile and servicing centre for private equity and other types of alternative investment, from its tax transparency and firm but flexible regulatory app »

The development of the private equity industry in Luxembourg over the four years since the introduction of the Sicar vehicle for risk capital investment has opened up a wide range of opportunities for »

The servicing of private equity and property funds is becoming an increasingly important area of business for CACEIS, the investor services joint venture between the Crédit Agricole group and Natixis, »

For many players in Luxembourg, private equity activity began with its arrival in the regulated fund environment with the launch of the Sicar in 2004, but Fortis's experience goes back rather longer. »

Latency: A measure of delay. In a market where speed is of the essence, the spotlight falls on the issue of latency. Latency is the time it takes to get a deal done, cancel an order or know what is happening in the market. »

It is clear from conversations with a broad range of market participants that inherent latency is a problem for active market participants on current FX trading systems. »

Network latency is the time needed to effect a communication between two network nodes. »