Your last month has been… hectic! You’ve gone through it like a champion and here you are, facing Christmas and the overwhelming giving-the-right-gift thing. You have a few days to come up with THE present your relatives and friends will love. Don’t panic, though, we’ve got you covered. We’ve tested …
The transition from one generation to the next can make or break a family business; and as the ‘baby boomers’ hand over to the ‘millennials’, the risks of getting it wrong have never been greater. In Luxembourg, at least one-third of the companies will have to transfer their business in …
With EUR 235 per capita, Luxembourg is currently the largest per capita donor to the Green Climate Fund, the UNFCCC mechanism meant to help developing countries counter climate change. The Grand Duchy pledged EUR 120 million to finance climate change mitigation and adaptation projects between 2015 and 2020.
Brexit was the first major sign of the developed world’s rebuke to globalisation, and the rest of Europe may well be next. With Donald Trump being the 45th president of the USA, a wind of change is blowing. Protectionism is on the rise and with it comes slower growth, because …
The result of the UK’s referendum has already led to considerable market turbulence with experts predicting more to come. The Brexit vote has presaged a period of sustained uncertainty as we are debating the political, legal and indeed business implications – with little hope for concrete answers in the near-term. …
President-elect Trump campaigned on an agenda of increased government spending, lower taxes and regulatory rollbacks, among other topics. At this point, it’s impossible to know which policies he’ll actually put forward, how they’ll change on their way to implementation, and – especially unclear – how they’ll fit together to collectively …
The 2017 tax reform becomes effective on 1 January and with it comes along a series of tax measures aimed at tackling corporate taxation. We’re looking at what the tax reform means for companies and what further measure could strengthen Luxembourg’s credibility and attractiveness.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679) requires companies to act lawfully, fairly and transparently in their use of personal data and in how they deal with people whose data they process. Businesses have to be transparent and honest about what they’re doing and why. What does that mean?
New communication technologies, new sources of energy and new modes of transport – here are the drivers of the third industrial revolution, as seen by Jeremy Rifkin. With this revolution, we’re entering a new age – the age of a circular economy, fuelled by smart technologies in a prosumer-focused social …
Private Equity (PE) continues to be the rising star of alternative investment strategies. Fund-raising statistics show nothing but positive results and the deals market remains very active. Although PE players will be expected to navigate through various regulatory and market changes in the next year, the outlook promises to be …
