Pedagogy EURO STOXX 50® Total Return Futures
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Pedagogy TARN on REVERSE CMS
A major U.S bank has recently issued Target Accrual Redemption Note (TARN) on reverse CMS (Constant Maturity Swap). This product pays a coupon indexed on a reverse, capped and floored CMS until the sum of coupon payments reach a target (...)
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Pedagogy What is CPPI (Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance)?
CPPI or Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance is a dynamic management technique that ensures a minimum guaranteed amount to an investor at the time of maturity
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Pedagogy Performance fee impact
These fees are far from being insignificant for investor returns. According to Duncan Wilkinson, CEO of Alpha Simplex, more and more hedge fund managers, especially in the United States, have decided to offer products without any performance fees; a trend that should (...)
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Pedagogy Invest in domestic chinese stocks with ETFS-E Fund MSCI China A GO UCITS
In May 2014, ETF Securities partnered with E Fund, one of the largest asset managers in China, to launch a physical exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks physical A-shares listed in China. It is the first UCITS ETF to track the MSCI China A (...)
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Pedagogy What is Long/Short Equity ?
Hedge funds apply a vast array of investment strategies which can be more or less complex. In this article, we shall focus on the Long / Short strategy…
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Pedagogy Eurex Market-on-Close Futures
Eurex Market-on-Close Futures (Eurex MOC Futures) are designed to significantly facilitate MOC trading since the index futures can be traded at the underlying cash market index close ahead of its actual publication.
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Pedagogy What is a dividend "future"?
A dividend future is a forward contract traded on an organized market, allowing taking a position on the amount of dividends paid by a publicly traded company to its shareholders for a specific maturity date. It is not necessary to hold shares in the company to intervene in (...)
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Pedagogy Infrastructure : A Growing asset class
Even if infrastructure investments shares some of the characteristics with fixed income (long term predictable yield), real estate (investing in physical assets) and private equity (leverage is used), its popularity is increasing among (...)
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Pedagogy Amundi Funds Absolute Global Dividend aim for 150 to 200M€ in managed assets over a period of 12 months
According to Warin Buntrock, fund manager of Amundi Funds Absolute Global Dividend in BFT Gestion, the investors feedback is encouraging. As proof, the fund, launched on 15th April 2013, is today 65 million worth in assets under (...)
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Pedagogy Sovereign Wealth Funds
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are state-owned or affiliated funds. The first type (by far the biggest) invests foreign exchange reserves, driven by trade surpluses and exports of natural resources.
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Pedagogy New milestones achieved in Eurex’s futures on French government bonds
Eurex Exchange has recently set several new records in its Euro-OAT Futures. In August 2012, open interest exceeded for the first time the 100,000 threshold with 104,869 contracts. Trading volume in July also set a new record, both in average daily volume with about 19,600 (...)
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Pedagogy BNP Paribas L1 Equity World Low Volatility
The Fund BNP Paribas L1 Equity World Low Volatility seeks to outperform the MSCI World Index over a full market cycle with risk reduction objective and limiting tracking error risk level. Absolute volatility is targeted to be lower than the MSCI World (...)
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Pedagogy Credit Default Swaps (CDS).
Politicians have, in general, a very rough knowledge on financial products, especially credit derivatives. In some cases, this may be a gap. Indeed, the icelandic prime minister is now aware of it...
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Pedagogy MBS: Size, Depth & Liquidity
With a low volatility profile and steady yield, returns from mortgage-backed securities beat other medium and high-quality fixed income securities over time. The market has had a radical reform since it took a hit during the financial crisis; those who seek a truly (...)
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