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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.

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Allocators Scale Back in Commodities and Emerging Market Stocks

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The Money Printing Myth - Why Sovereigns Default on Local Currency Debt

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Special focus on Quantitative Management: Smart Beta positionning and outlook within current asset management framework

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PIMCO has launched Foreign Currency Strategy Exchange Traded Fund (FORX)

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Eurex expands its product offering on French government bonds

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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

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Risk factors: taking risk budgeting one step further

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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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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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Opinion Again and again the bank stress tests

Certainly it never ceases to write about the bank stress tests since it keeps getting more into banks; if proof were needed of the total lack of credibility of those made up to now

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People Moves Helena Viñes Fiestas joins BNP Paribas Investment Partners as co-head of SRI research

In reinforcing the research team, she will manage all the analysis and research dedicated to SRI theme funds which favour investments in companies providing solutions to environmental or social issues.

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Regulation Contractual OPCVM: a flexible and secure tool at the disposal of French asset managers

The french contractual OPCVM, in its configuration post october 2008 application decree, is a tool with features of interest for management companies, investors and service providers.

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Interview Kevin Loo : «The FF Global Strategic Bond Fund has received a growing interest from investors wanting to overcome the benchmark related risks.»

Flexible asset allocation process, strategic and tactical allocation...Kevin Loo, Global Fixed Income Product Manager at Fidelity tells us about the operation and objectives of the FF Global Strategic Bond Fund...

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Innovation The BNP Paribas Flexible Fund Stars index, an index for exposure to flexible funds!

Launched this year, the BNP Paribas Flexible Fund Stars index allows investors to position themselves in an equally weighted basket of four UCITS flexible funds, all having an excellent accumulated performance, a track record of 5 years and significant assets (...)

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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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Product Back to the future, may 2011: Nobles Crus and Earth Element Fund

Yesterday they were introduced as innovatives products. Today, How far have they got and what are the prospects for tomorrow ? Two products in the spotlight this month: Nobles Crus or the blend of passion for wine and financial investment, and a quantitative systematic (...)

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People Moves Aviva Investors boosts fixed income team

Raphaelle Moysan will be responsible for liaising with potential clients and investment consultants with a focus on Aviva Investors fixed income absolute return offering.

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Fitch Places Cypriot Covered Bonds on Rating Watch Negative
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ING agrees to sell part of its stake in SulAmérica
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ORIX acquires Robeco
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Peripheral Banks Likely To Hold Onto LTRO Funding
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Deutsche Bank reports third quarter 2012 income before income taxes of EUR 1.1 billion
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Fitch Places Argentina on Rating Watch Negative
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PIMCO’s El-Erian sees more stimulus from ECB and Fed
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Fitch Affirms Credit Suisse at ’A’; Outlook Stable

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