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May 20

Strategy Allocators Scale Back in Commodities and Emerging Market Stocks

BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds Investors Positioning For China Slowdown and Low Inflation...

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

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Emotion is not a sign of weakness for investors any more

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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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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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Strategy How Smart is ‘Smart Beta’ Investing?

Investors increasingly embrace “smart beta” investing, by which we mean passively following an index in which stock weights are not proportional to their market capitalizations, but based on some alternative weighting scheme. Examples include fundamentally-weighted indices (...)

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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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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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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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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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Interview Bruno Dupire: «The problem of finance is not to compute......»

A pioneer of local volatility models and leader of quantitative research at Société Générale then Paribas, Bruno Dupire, gives us his vision of markets and responds to criticism of the local volatility...

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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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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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Strategy Forex, a value added in an allocation between real and financial assets

The foreign exchange market (Forex) is not an extra asset class but all asset classes together in the same market. It can be a real source of diversification and performance subject to a systematic, disciplined and rigorous (...)

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Interview François Millet: « In some Dutch pension funds, ’Smart Beta’ indices exceed 40% of their core portfolio »

According to François Millet, Product Line Manager ETF & Indexing at Lyxor Asset Management, "Smart Beta" is intended to be located in the core portfolio of institutional investors, weighing generally between 10% and 40% of their passive (...)

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People Moves Lombard Odier Investment Managers Combines Global and Emerging Bond Teams, Appoints Salman Ahmed as Strategist

Lombard Odier Investment Managers’ (LOIM) has combined its Global and Emerging Fixed Income teams into a single unit and hired a market strategist.

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