November 2012
Innovation Swiss Re places first bonds to combine natural catastrophe and mortality risks
Swiss Re has obtained USD 200 million in coverage against North Atlantic hurricane and UK extreme mortality risk through its new Mythen Re programme...
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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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August 2012
Innovation Swiss Re obtains USD 275 million of extreme mortality protection from the capital markets through its Vita programme
Swiss Re today announced the successful transfer of USD 275 million of extreme mortality risk to the capital markets through its VITA securitization programme.
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July 2012
Innovation Natixis AM and AEW Europe raise €240 million for their Senior European Loan Fund
Natixis AM and AEW Europe are combining forces to launch the Senior European Loan Fund, the first sub-fund of a closed-ended seven year fund structure investing in senior real estate loans. On launch, the fund is completing a first close with commitments of €240 million and (...)
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March 2012
Innovation Pictet launches Pictet-EUR Short Term High Yield
Pictet Asset Management, the asset management arm of the Swiss private bank Pictet & Cie, today announced the launch of Pictet-EUR Short Term High Yield fund, a Luxembourg-domiciled UCITS compliant fund, investing in EUR high yield short-dated (...)
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January 2012
Innovation Launch of EMERGENCE, 1st seed-capital fund for young management companies on the Paris Financial Markets
A key necessity for these young companies, either based in or seeking to be established in France, is seed capital to manage from day one. Such capital allows management companies to quickly reach critical mass.
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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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December 2011
Innovation The ECB announces 3 years refinancing measures !
The ECB has adopted a historic longer term refinancing measure to support bank lending and money market activity. It also decided to lower the threshold rating for certain securities as collateral ...
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November 2011
Innovation Groupama to launch a fund based on risk premiums
Groupama Risk Premium distinguishes itself in the French market with its reliance on risk premiums to allocate its portfolio between the three main asset classes (equities, bonds, currencies).
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November 2011
Innovation Natixis AM launches Natixis Crédit Euro 1-3
Chiefly invested in Euro bonds supplied by private issuers rated “Investment Grade1“ with maturity 1-3 years, Natixis’s FCP Crédit Euro 1-3 fund targets a performance +0.30% above the Barclays Capital Euro Aggregate Corporate Credit 1-3 index over a recommended investment period (...)
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November 2011
Innovation Skandia Investment Group (SIG) launches UCITS managed futures fund
SIG has chosen to partner with London based Aspect Capital and is seeking the sort of returns generated by Aspect’s Diversified Programme – the Company’s flagship investment strategy which caters primarily to large sophisticated institutional investors and has a 12 year plus (...)
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November 2011
Innovation Munich Re transfer US hurricane and European windstorm risks to the capital markets
Munich Re has acquired coverage for US hurricane and European windstorm risks with a total volume of US$ 100m from the special-purpose vehicle Queen Street IV Capital Limited, which in turn has placed a catastrophe bond for this amount in the capital (...)
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November 2011
Innovation Rabobank successfully issued a US$ 2bn benchmark hybrid Tier 1 transaction
Rabobank successfully issued a US$ 2bn benchmark hybrid Tier 1 transaction. These capital securities, priced at a coupon of 8.40%, have been designed to comply with current Dutch and European Regulatory requirements (CRD (...)
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