On 23 September 2026, the Luxembourg Valuation Professionals Association brings the grand duchy's valuation community together for its Annual Valuation Summit. smartZebra will be there.
The LVPA has grown quickly since it was founded in November 2022, and its annual summit has become the fixed point in the Luxembourg valuation calendar. It gathers valuation professionals from funds, banks, advisory firms, AIFMs and regulators for a day of technical sessions and peer exchange.
We are joining to meet the people who value private market assets for a living, and to hear where the practical pressure points are right now.
Why we are attending
Luxembourg sits at the centre of European fund structuring, which makes it one of the most demanding valuation environments anywhere. Portfolio companies, private debt, infrastructure and holding structures all need defensible discount rates, and they need them at every reporting date rather than once a year.
That is the problem smartZebra was built to solve. Instead of assembling risk-free rates from central bank sites, betas from one source, market risk premia from a study and credit spreads from a broker note, our platform delivers every cost of capital component from one database, at your valuation date, with the raw data and the calculation path attached.
For anyone whose work is reviewed by an AIFM valuation function, an auditor or the CSSF, that traceability matters as much as the number itself.
What we are bringing to the conversation
If you are attending the summit, we would be glad to discuss:
- Peer group construction – AI-assisted screening across 50,000+ listed companies
- Beta factors – flexible valuation dates, return intervals, reference indices, tax shield and debt beta settings, with statistical quality metrics
- Market risk premia – implied and historical approaches side by side, with the reasoning documented
- Credit spreads and cost of debt – terms from 1 to 30 years, sector-specific or across sectors, useful for private debt work
- Country risk premia – for cross-border structures and emerging market exposure
- Valuation documentation – full audit trails, raw data download and Excel export
What the LVPA is building
The LVPA's stated aim is to lift the standard of valuation practice in Luxembourg and to make the country a centre of excellence for the profession. Its work on the Certified Valuation Professional credential, developed in partnership with EACVA, points in the same direction.
Standards only work if the underlying inputs are consistent and reproducible. As IVS adoption deepens and supervisory expectations tighten, the question of where a discount rate came from is asked more often, and answered in more detail. That is a conversation we are keen to be part of.
Everything you need to know
Let's connect in Luxembourg
If you are going to the summit, get in touch beforehand or find us on the day. Whether you are wrestling with discount rates for an illiquid portfolio, rebuilding your peer group methodology, or simply want to compare notes on how others document their assumptions, we would like to hear from you.
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