November 2015
News CNP Assurances and Meridiam help finance the energy transition by launching Meridiam Transition
CNP Assurances, the leading personal insurer in France, operating in Europe and Latin America and the project organiser, along with management company Meridiam, announces the launch of the Meridiam Transition fund.
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November 2015
News CalPERS Adopts Funding Risk Mitigation Policy to Rein in Risk and Volatility in Pension System
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today adopted a funding risk mitigation policy that will incrementally lower the discount rate in years of good investment returns, help pay down the pension fund’s unfunded liability, and provide greater (...)
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November 2015
News The wheel turned in favor of directional strategies
The Lyxor he Lyxor he LyxorHedge Fund Index was Hedge Fund Index was Hedge Fund Index was up+1.1% in October October October. 8 out of 11 Lyxor Indices ended the month in positive territory. The Lyxor LS Equity Long Bias Index (+4.5%), the Lyxor Special Situations Index (...)
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November 2015
News Fitch: Global Credit Growth Prospects Remain Stable; Downside Risks for Emerging Markets
Fitch Ratings says in its latest Macro-Prudential Monitor that global credit growth is not likely to have a strong pick-up in 2015. Hence, macro-prudential risk indicators (MPI) could continue to trend lower with the highest risks still largely confined to emerging markets (...)
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November 2015
News So much for pari passu as senior bondholders get dragged into Greek bank recapitalization
By hook or by crook, senior bondholders are in line to help plug the €14.4 billion capital gap that the ECB’s asset quality review and stress test revealed in Greek banks’ balance sheets.
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November 2015
News SNL Financial: The Nordic revenue warning for Europe’s banks
In recent reporting seasons, disappointment would have been unthinkable; reliability was the Nordic banks’ stock in trade. Yet the third-quarter 2015 revenue and income figures from the biggest Swedish lenders simply look (...)
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November 2015
News Asset quality on the mend in Portugal, despite political uncertainty
After a long period of decay, asset quality is improving at Portugal’s banks — and political uncertainty seems unlikely to interrupt the trend.
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November 2015
News The GX Private Equity IndexSM (PEI) saw an overall return of 4.2 percent
State Street’s GX Private Equity Index Shows Fund Distributions Continue to Outpace Capital Drawdowns, Driving the Quarterly Return to 4.2% in the Second Quarter of 2015...
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November 2015
News AfDB issues 0.75% US$ 1 billion global benchmark due 3 November 2017
On Tuesday, October 27, 2015, the African Development Bank (AfDB) successfully launched and priced a new 1 billion 2-year US dollar global benchmark due November 3, 2017. This is the AfDB’s second US dollar global benchmark of the year following a successful 5-year benchmark (...)
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November 2015
News Lyxor to reach 50% physical ETF assets
Lyxor is to switch key European, Global and US ETFs to physical replication, in a drive to continuously improve the quality of replication for investors. Following the switch, Lyxor will have more than half of its assets (€25bn) in physical replication, making it the third (...)
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November 2015
News Higher interest rates not a panacea for bank profitability according to SNL’s 2015 U.S. Bank and Thrift Market Report
New research on the US bank and thrift sector from SNL indicates that profitability in the industry will improve but not reach pre-crisis levels. The inaugural edition of SNL’s 2015 U.S.
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October 2015
News CalPERS Board Adopts Decision that Former Loomis Fire Chief Violated Pension Law
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration (Board) adopted an administrative law judge’s decision that found former Loomis Fire District’s Fire Chief, David Wheeler, to have knowingly violated the retirement law, and ordered him and the (...)
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October 2015
News Greater Manchester Pension Fund and LPFA infrastructure programme makes first investment
Greater Manchester & London Infrastructure Limited (GLIL), a £500m infrastructure investment joint venture between Greater Manchester Pensions Fund and the London Pensions Fund Authority, has committed £60m towards funding the construction and operation of British (...)
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October 2015
News UBS continues its reign on top as the largest private bank in Asia Pacific
Private Banker International announced the 2015 PBI Top 20 Asia-Pacific Rankings at the Private Banker International Global Wealth Summit 2015. This year’s survey showed a continued rise in Asian wealth and reveals UBS as the largest private bank by AUM in the region, for the (...)
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October 2015
News Montupet’s Board of Directors supports Linamar’s draft tender offer
The Board of Directors of Montupet met on October 14, 2015 to review the terms and conditions of the draft Voluntary Cash Tender Offer. Linamar intends to file for 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of the Company at €71.53 per (...)
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