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The financial sector remains attractive for the young generation but their expectations with regard to employers have changed. This is one of the conclusions of Christian Scharff’s interview with LFF about the recruitment market in Luxembourg. As Partner in Advisory, Human Resource Services at PwC Luxembourg, he notes that crises are interesting periods that reveal good managers.
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Islamic finance starts thinking outside the box
Last week’s IFN Europe conference in London, organised by Islamic Finance News, was refreshing. Packed with practitioners prepared to ask difficult questions, we had the impression that “Islamic” finance was ready to work at adding something new to the word “finance”. An example was Dr Armen Papazian of Keipr, who argued for a change in the logic of money creation. There was also a running debate on Day 1 on the question of whether there is a real business case for corporate sukuk.
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Private equity: separating the wheat from the chaff
2011 will see the start of a widening performance gap between the industry’s winners and the rest, predicts Ernst & Young in its Global Private Equity Watch 2011.With banks and capital markets supporting a growing number of high-quality deals, conditions are improving for a sustained period of normalised investment levels. In an interview with LFF, Dr. Carmen von Nell-Breuning, Senior Manager Private Equity Business Development at Ernst & Young, Luxembourg, speaks about the industry’s outlook and Luxembourg’s role in private equity
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Getting the best out of a volunteer programme partnership
The Institut pour le mouvemement societal au Luxembourg (IMS) recently gave a lunchtime seminar on how to go about setting up and running an employee volunteer programme. Judging by the packed audience and extended question session, there is a lot of latent interest in this sort of programme in Luxembourg. The key to a successful partnership is to ensure that all three stakeholders are at the centre of the process: the company, the volunteers and the NGO. Be committed, focus on results and above all communicate: expectation management is a must.
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Excellent financial literacy needed to meet demanding customers
The Luxembourg financial centre needs to prepare for some major changes that are in sight. In the area of asset management, the trend is towards a more affluent and demanding clientele.There is a second major trend identified in a study conducted by Edouard Franklin, an international executive search boutique: some small private banking players in Luxembourg will disappear, while large structures will expand.
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The Chinese invasion
Until the middle of the 19th century, Asia was the economic centre of the world. After the Opium War and the Indian Revolution, it was replaced by Europe and the US. Since the beginning of the financial crisis, the pendulum is swinging back to Asia once again. By 2050, its GDP share is projected to amount for 52% of the world’s economic power.
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Every economic decision has a moral consequence
"There is no such thing as an ethically neutral business leader." These were the words of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State, as he welcomed 100 global business leaders and academics to the Vatican for an Executive Summit on Ethics for the Business World.
The delegates, who represented a range of Christian denominations and the Jewish faith, shared a desire to find new ways to ground the ethical dimension of economic and business activity. The reference document of the Summit was Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical on the social teaching of the Catholic church, Caritas in Veritate (charity enlightened by truth), an intensely practical document that has gained a wide following as the springboard for ethical debate in business.
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