February 2013
Note EDHEC-Risk Institute Survey Confirms Investor Dissatisfaction with Corporate Bond Indices
In a survey entitled ‘Reactions to “A Review of Corporate Bond Indices: Construction Principles, Return Heterogeneity, and Fluctuations in Risk Exposures”’ researchers at EDHEC-Risk Institute have analysed industry reactions to a previous EDHEC-Risk study on corporate bond (...)
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February 2013
Innovation PIMCO has launched Foreign Currency Strategy Exchange Traded Fund (FORX)
PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, has listed the PIMCO Foreign Currency Strategy Exchange Traded Fund (Ticker: FORX), created to offer investors the potential to benefit from fundamental changes in global currency dynamics by diversifying away from the (...)
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January 2013
News Credit Suisse agrees to sell ETF business to BlackRock
Credit Suisse today announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its exchange traded funds (ETF) business to BlackRock, Inc. (BlackRock). This is an important strategic step in an industry that requires significant scale, and allows Credit Suisse to realize value in a (...)
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December 2012
Strategy An example of Quantitative Strategy: The Low Volatility approach
Low volatility indices and, more broadly, products based on quantitative strategies aiming to select only low-volatility stocks, have met with growing success with the financial community and investors. However, most of these indices have major drawbacks that cannot always (...)
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December 2012
Innovation Nomura publishes Nomura Japan Equity High Dividend 70 Index
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that it has published a new index named the Nomura Japan Equity High Dividend 70.
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November 2012
Opinion Benchmarking: The Multi-Asset Class Exception
Ask any active fund manager about his benchmark, and he will have a ready-made answer. Even fixed-income managers have plenty of indices to choose from. The call is trickier for diversified fund managers...
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November 2012
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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November 2012
Innovation Nomura Launches Innovative Daily Investible Index Targeting Private Equity Returns
Nomura, Asia’s global investment bank, today announced the launch of the Nomura QES Modelled Private Equity Returns Index (Net) (the ?PERI„), the first daily investible index which targets returns similar to those which may be achieved through a global broad-based investment (...)
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November 2012
Innovation S&P Dow Jones Indices Adds Two Indices to the S&P Low Volatility Family
S&P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s largest provider of financial market indices, announced today the launch of the S&P MidCap 400 Low Volatility Index and the S&P SmallCap 600 Low Volatility Index - which seek to measure the performance of the least volatile (...)
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October 2012
Innovation NYSE Euronext launches CAC and AEX Low Risk Indices
NYSE Euronext today announced the expansion of its range of indices with the launch of the CAC® Low Risk Index and the AEX® Low Risk Index...
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October 2012
Innovation Ossiam adds Global Equities to Minimum Variance strategies
Ossiam, the smart beta and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) investment manager and affiliate of Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM), has today announced the launch of its latest ETF which offers access to its minimum variance strategy applied to global developed equity (...)
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October 2012
Note New EDHEC-Risk Institute study addresses Volatility ETNs following the Credit Suisse TVIX controversy of early 2012
Gaining exposure to volatility has become easier for investors after the introduction of volatility ETNs (exchange-traded notes) and volatility ETFs (exchange-traded funds) and some of these products have enjoyed a surge in (...)
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January 2012
Note Assessment of the true risks of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
According to EDHEC-Risk Institute, any discussion of the risks inherent in ETFs should go beyond merely hypothesising about potential risks, and should also take into account the empirical evidence provided by the existing academic research on (...)
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January 2012
Note Major innovations in weighting methodologies for equity and bond indices
According to Christian Lopez, Head of Research at CPR-AM, the four largest families of alternative indices are low volatility/minimum variance, equally-weighted, indices weighted by micro or macro fundamentals and maximum diversification (...)
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January 2012
Innovation Legal & General IM and Source offer a new index for commodity investment
The fund, which tracks the LGIM Commodity Composite Index, is designed to offer high quality, diversified exposure to commodities in a UCITS-compliant ETF...
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