Delano’s Spring 2023, with a special focus on alternative investments, is available on newsstands starting 24 March 2023.  Cover: Serge Ricco (art direction)/Maison Moderne

Delano’s Spring 2023, with a special focus on alternative investments, is available on newsstands starting 24 March 2023.  Cover: Serge Ricco (art direction)/Maison Moderne

In its latest issue--with a whole new format--Delano explores how private equity, private debt, infrastructure and real estate funds are changing the grand duchy’s financial sector.

Fund services provider Aztec Group’s Luxembourg operations has grown from 20 people in 2007 to more than 600 at the time of publication. It has been a recruitment and retention challenge, to say the least, as Peter Brown, the firm’s Luxembourg head, explains in one interview in this special edition. 

In many ways, this story represents the alternative fund sector’s overall trajectory in the grand duchy. Assets under management in Luxembourg alternative funds have more than doubled, from roughly €413bn at the end of 2007 to more than €950bn in February 2023, according to figures from the Luxembourg Financial Sector Supervisory Commission (CSSF). 

Such growth comes with change, and this issue examines how private equity, private debt, infrastructure and real estate funds are changing the grand duchy’s financial sector, and which trends are changing them. 

Also in this issue:

·      A dossier devoted to communal election stakes, with an explainer about what communes do and the top priorities of each political party, with a call to action to encourage ;

·      A special “Meet the finance execs” portfolio, with  (Luxflag),  (Luxembourg for Finance),  (Alfi);  (Lhoft);  (ABBL, Banque Raiffeisen);  (SwanCap Investment Management, LPEA) and (ILA);

·      Foyer CEO  on how the insurance sector is keeping pace in light of rising threats, from cybersecurity to climate change;

·      Lawyer Biba Homsy on blockchain industry trends and challenges;

·     University of Luxembourg’s Christian Meyers tackles certain conspiracy theories, ahead of this year’s double elections;

·     Tax education talk with independent director and co-founder of Charlotte in Red, ;

·     President of the Chamber of Skilled Trades and Crafts  on the need for craftspeople to help tackle future challenges; 

·     Chamber of Deputies president (DP) on how parliament must represent the grand duchy’s diverse population;

·     Four professionals in the finance sector share their favourite places and tips for the perfect afterwork social; and more.

About Delano

The print edition of Delano, the English language news publication for Luxembourg’s financial community, is published four times a year. The magazine is available by  and at  across the grand duchy. Delano also publishes two : a daily briefing on the latest financial, business, political and cultural news and events in the grand duchy, sent weekdays at 11:45am, and a deep-dive into Luxembourg’s financial sector, sent Tuesdays at 2pm. Delano hosts several live  throughout the year as part of the Paperjam + Delano Business Club. Delano is on  and .