Study Finance in Luxembourg
Luxembourg is the premier private banking centre in the Eurozone and the second largest fund centre in the world. Due to its stability as well as its innovative and international orientation, the Luxembourg financial centre is an ideal hub for private and institutional investors from all over the world.
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Luxembourg is the premier private banking centre in the Eurozone and the second largest fund centre in the world. Due to its stability as well as its innovative and international orientation, the Luxembourg financial centre is an ideal hub for private and institutional investors from all over the world.
576.200
inhabitants
AAA rating
Standard & Poor’s
Moody’s
Fitch
The Financial Centre
Luxembourg has developed its financial centre by demonstrating its excellence in cross-border financial services. As early as the 1960s, Luxembourg had the vision and openness to merge local expertise with international talent and developed a financial centre offering a diverse range of multicurrency services and products to the international business community.
143
banks
Banks in Luxembourg have established several areas of expertise, including:
- private and institutional wealth management;
- corporate banking;
- retail and commercial banking;
- a full range of investment fund services.
778bn €
Total assets of banks
in Luxembourg
1st
first in cross-border
fund distribution
At the end of 2014, assets under management in Luxembourg-registered funds topped €3 trillion, with a total of €3.5 trillion recorded in June 2015. More than half of this growth, or 52%, was due to inflows of new money from investors.
Luxembourg offers a host of services for the private equity industry. It provides competitive structures for setting up private equity and venture capital funds, making it possible to facilitate acquisitions both within individual countries or on a pan-European basis.