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May 31
People Moves Nomura Strengthens Equities Product Offering in the Americas
Nomura, Asia’s global investment bank, continues to strengthen its equities franchise in the Americas and announces the appointment of Tom Jarck as a Managing Director and Co-Head of Equity Index Trading.
Strategy
Allocators Scale Back in Commodities and Emerging Market Stocks
Note
The Money Printing Myth - Why Sovereigns Default on Local Currency Debt
Recent innovations
ETF / Index - Fx
PIMCO has launched Foreign Currency Strategy Exchange Traded Fund (FORX)
Fixed Income
Eurex expands its product offering on French government bonds
Focus
April 4
Product iSTOXX™ Europe Minimum Variance
The approach initiated by Ossiam’s research and management team intends to obtain an optimized portfolio that includes a selection of stocks where volatility is among the lowest in the investment universe
Strategy
Risk factors: taking risk budgeting one step further
Interview
Philippe Goubeault : « We could replace a benchmarked fund by a ’Smart Beta’ index »
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Note Emotion is not a sign of weakness for investors any more
New research suggests that rather than staying cold-bloodied and rational the top fund managers use emotion to choose which stocks to buy.
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News Hedge funds continue their positive run in april
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up +0.8% in April, bringing year-to-date performance to +3.2%. 12 Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 14 ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor L/S Equity Market Neutral Index (+3.9%), the Lyxor CTA Long Term Index (+3.0%) and the (...)
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People Moves Deutsche Bank appoints Philip Lee as Chief Country Officer, Singapore and Vice Chairman, South East Asia
He will take over from Ronny Tan as Chief Country Officer for Singapore and in addition will also work across all the Bank’s business divisions to develop the Bank’s client activities in South East Asia...
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Note UCITS hedge funds underperform their non-UCITS rivals, shows new study
UCITS hedge funds are typically more volatile and underperform their non-UCITS hedge fund rivals, a new comprehensive comparative study by the EDHEC-Risk Institute has found...
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News Hedge funds advance in march, looking beyond Europe
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up +0.62% in March, bringing year-to-date performance to +2.36%. 10 Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 14 ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor Special Situations Index (+2.09%), the Lyxor L/S Equity Long Bias (+1.41%) and the (...)
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News Nomura reaches US$1bn AUM in Japan UCITS fund
Nomura Asset Management U.K. Ltd. today announced that it has seen strong inflows into its Japan Strategic Value Fund, enabling it to surpass $1 billion of AUM and become one of the biggest funds in the sector.
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Strategy A smart approach of Index Management
Two years ago, Ossiam entered the European market with ETFs based on two innovative investment strategies offering an alternative to traditional equity market cap-weighted indices: The Ossiam Equal Weight ETFs and The Ossiam Minimum Variance ETFs. Back to smart beta concept (...)
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Interview Philip Tindall : « We see further development of non-market cap approaches in bonds »
According to Philip Tindall, senior investment consultant at Towers Watson, there has been a lot of interest in smart betas area, and investors are beginning to allocate assets - Towers Watson’s clients have invested more than (...)
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Opinion Jean-Claude Guimiot : « There is no ’Smart Beta’ strategy within our asset allocation program »
According to Jean-Claude Guimiot, CEO of AGRICA EPARGNE (asset management company of the Group AGRICA), invest in "Smart Beta" index is not on the agenda ...
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Product 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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Note The rumour, a necessary credit analysis instrument
According to Bruno Mathis from SterWen and Jean Delahousse, all institutions exposed on Lehman which have highly developed credit analysis tools are able to detect warning signs as soon as they come about and would have almost four months to take safety measures (CDS (...)
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Note EDHEC-Risk Institute Study Highlights the Inefficiency of Asian Stock Market Indices
In a study entitled “Assessing the Quality of Asian Stock Market Indices,” researchers at EDHEC-Risk Institute have reported results for 10 major Asian stock market indices over the past decade.
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Interview Elie Ayache : « The trading of derivatives products has nothing to do with the probability distributions»
He was among the first volatility traders in the matif ! ITO33 Founder and former head of research at Dexia AM, Elie Ayache gives us his thoughts on the derivatives markets he defines as the technology...
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Strategy Agricultural land rush of investment funds!
After launching products indexed to changes in prices of agricultural products, many banks and investment funds are turning now to the land acquisition...
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Note Financial crisis indicators and safe haven assets
How to measure the intensity of the current financial and economic crisis? Regular monitoring of a number of economic and financial indicators helps answering this question and better understanding the materialization of panic behavior and portfolio reallocations in the (...)
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Regulation Swiss Re sigma study takes a fresh look at the progress in the long-running debate to make insurance accounting practices more economically relevant and internationally comparable
Swiss Re’s latest sigma research publication "Insurance accounting reform: a glass half empty or half full?" takes a fresh look at the long-running debate over upgrading and harmonising insurance accounting practices.
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Stories Lazard: An incredible family saga
Return to the foundation of the myth of Lazard, one of the most powerful historic French banks, who has reshaped the global landscape business for almost a century.
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Profile Quantitative Analyst: a dream career for young mathematicians
Each year, more and more young engineers or science graduates are interested in this career. But how does one become a “quant” ?
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Stories Bill Gross, The king of bonds
At sixty-seven years old, the founder of Pimco is one of the most acclaimed financiers. His secret lies somewhere between Vietnam, blackjack and yoga.
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Opinion Robots have taken power in finance
Describe the real world with numbers is a trend that seems to be accelerating. Thus, digital technology is associated with financial models to show that we (human) interact with our environment using mathematical (...)
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