The Future of Luxembourg Investment Funds in the Next Decade

The fund industry is permanently evolving, but incremental changes are hardly noticed. Sometimes however, industries undergo radical changes, where the process of evolution is significantly disrupted by outside technological, demographic, regulatory, and economic forces. This article discusses two important potential/probable developments of the Luxembourg investment fund industry in the coming decade. First, it explains why it is expected that Luxembourg investment funds will continue to rise in importance comparatively to many other jurisdictions. Second, it sheds some light on how blockchain and decentralized auton-omous organizations (‘DAOs') are due to reshape the investment fund industry with a flourish of new ac-tors attracting significant attention from markets, customers, and investors alike