Denise Voss, Chairman of ALFI, said: “The asset management industry plays a key role in economic growth, enabling people to save for their long-term financial security, stimulating innovation and ensuring sufficient investments in infrastructure.”
Denise Voss, Chairman of ALFI, explained: “London has always been a key market for ALFI and our annual conference here is now the largest we run, a reflection of the size and importance of the relationship between the financial centres of London and Luxembourg.” She continued: “Now that much of the post-crisis regulation has already or is in the process of being implemented, we are able to focus on how the fund industry can adapt to a completely different environment of new technologies, changing demographics, new distribution methods, as well as focusing on the social and economic benefit that funds drive by creating economic growth.”
An increasingly important role played by debt funds was highlighted on the one hand in addressing the imbalance in liquidity supply and on the other hand in helping businesses raise capital to stimulate economic growth. Denise Voss confirmed: “Regulators and policy makers in Europe are becoming aware of the benefits of non-bank intermediation and especially debt funds as they provide an alternative to the banking industry in proposing to the real economy a different source of financing with little maturity transformation and limited leverage. For more than two decades now, Luxembourg has offered an unparalleled breadth of solutions for debt funds including debt origination and direct lending funds. As a result, over 70% of the top 30 debt fund managers worldwide are active in Luxembourg.”
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