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November 2023

Note Global Investment Managers Outlook 2024 : Tough Investment Climate Pressures Performance

Fitch Ratings’ 2024 sector outlook for global investment managers (IMs) is deteriorating. Increased macroeconomic and geopolitical risks and an increased risk of a US government shutdown create a challenging investment climate, with declining economic growth and high interest (...)

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Study reveals UK institutional investors/pension funds are increasing their focus on structured credit

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CNP Assurances publishes its responsible investment report and for the first time measures the dependence of its investment portfolio on biodiversity loss

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November 2015

Note TLAC / MREL - eligible senior debt: investors often overlooking the fundamental angle

Concerns about a weakened bank’s senior unsecured debt potentially being bailed in should not taint investment views for banks in decent-to-good credit shape; for financially healthy banks resolution remains a very remote (...)

October 2015

Note Eurozone offers best high yield bond valuations, institutions say

The Eurozone offers better valuations for high yield bonds than any other region in the world, according to new research by NN Investment Partners (NN IP). The research, conducted amongst NN IP’s panel of institutional investment managers, showed 27% of respondents rated (...)

October 2015

Note Credit Investor Survey: The urge to purge

According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, overall credit longs drop sharply again. Now only 9% overweight IG. Credit technicals thus better in October. Investor cash levels surge, but outflow concerns may partly explain this and only 31% of IG and 25% of HY investors think (...)

September 2015

Note Is Factor Investing a Welfare-Improving New Investment Paradigm or Yet Another Marketing Fad?

In a new study entitled “Factor Investing: A Welfare-Improving New Investment Paradigm or Yet Another Marketing Fad?”, drawn from the Lyxor research chair on “Risk Allocation Solutions”, EDHEC-Risk examines the relative efficiency of standard forms of practical implementation of (...)

September 2015

Note Well aware of the new financial environment, French savers are prepared to boost their investments while accepting a reasonable degree of risk

Natixis Global Asset Management today published the results of its 2 nd annual survey of French individual investors with financial assets of between €75,000 and €300,000 held in banks. This survey of 1,000 clients of French banks was conducted in May (...)

August 2015

Note BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds Weakening Outlook for Global Economy Amid Fears Over China

Global investors have shifted their attention from Greece to China amid continued concern of a Chinese recession, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for August. Respondents are scaling back their expectations for economic (...)

August 2015

Note Investors cautiously welcome advanced beta equity investing

Investors recognise advanced beta equity investing as a promising avenue but call for caution on insufficient transparency and on the difficulties in implementing long/short strategies

July 2015

Note Economic woes to effect Saudi Arabia’s wealthy

Saudi Arabia, one of the largest and richest countries in the Middle East, will not be so wealthy in years to come, forecasts a new report from WealthInsight.

July 2015

Note BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds Investors Hiking Cash Holdings in the Face of Lowered Confidence in China

Global investors have raised their holdings of cash significantly in response to a weaker global economic outlook, particularly in China, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for July.

July 2015

Note Retail fund distribution in the midst of major changes according to CACEIS and PwC report

CACEIS and PwC Luxembourg joined forces to release a new report, entitled Reshaping retail fund distribution - Winning strategies and tactics in a disrupted environment.

June 2015

Note Climate change: new investment risk demands action by investors, cautions new research

A new report from Mercer modelling the potential impact of climate change on investments, has found investors cannot ignore the implications for investment returns. The research reveals investors can manage the risk most effectively by looking ‘under the hood’ of their (...)

May 2015

Note Making ‘tactical adjustments’ is the key reason for using ETPS

New research commissioned by Source, one of the largest providers of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) in Europe, reveals that European professional investors say they use ETPs most often to make ‘tactical adjustments’ to their (...)

April 2015

Note Deutsche Bank’s strategic challenge

Since 2010 Deutsche Bank AG’s annual pretax profits have fallen significantly, although 2014 saw something of a recovery. This largely reflects the weaker performance of the investment bank, which has been troubled by unfavorable markets, legal charges and noncore (...)

March 2015

Note BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds Investors Migrating out of U.S. Equities amid Expectations of Fed Rate Hike

Global investors have significantly pared back U.S. equity allocations as belief grows that the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise rates in the second quarter, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for (...)

March 2015

Note 40% of European equity returns since 1970 generated by dividend payments, AllianzGI study finds

Dividends are a key driver of performance when real interest rates are low; European equity dividends are the most attractive internationally Norway and Spain offer the highest dividend yields, with German shares in the (...)

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Note Are markets becoming more unstable?

Readers of financial news may believe that ‘market corrections’, or ‘shocks’, or ‘five-sigma events’ are more common than they used to be. Winton Capital Management look at the historical data for a number of financial markets and find that there is no evidence for increasing (...)

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Note What is penalizing the industrialized countries?

The dynamics of Western countries are inadequate because, two years after leaving the recession behind, their economies still seem unable to implement a sturdy, autonomous trajectory of growth, explains Philippe Waechter, chief economist at Natixis (...)

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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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Note The EMF has been created, long live the EMF!

Philip Hall and Adrian Paturle give an update on the operation of ESM: European leaders have largely been inspired by the IMF...

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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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Note The dynamic of the yuan

According to Phillippe Waechter, Head of Economic Research of Natixis Asset management, the evolution of China is extremely rapid, and both its accumulation of foreign reserves and its capability to destabilise or stabilise global constructions is (...)

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Note The true nature of the derivative contract on French debt

The multiplication of misinterpretations related to the launch of the derivative contract on French debt leads to an apolitical analysis produced by a market professional to avoid amalgam and populism: This is a simple and useful contract, which was traded in the past in (...)

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Note Infrastructure investment to be a key driver of growth in emerging markets post COVID-19 crisis, sigma says

Emerging markets will invest an estimated 3.9% of GDP (USD 2.2 trillion annually) in infrastructure over next 20 years. There will be strong growth in investment in renewable energy, smart and resilient infrastructure. Emerging Asia will invest an estimated USD 1.7 trillion (...)

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Note The Timing Impact Approach: How particularities of carbon markets influence market ?

With the current ‘back-loading’ proposal of the European Commission on the table it is essential to further examine the specialities of carbon markets to assess the implications of the proposal on the market development of the EU ETS. An emission right is a new kind of good (...)

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Note Diversity wins : Persistent investor interest in smart beta, particularly within diversifying strategies

Willis Towers Watson’s institutional investment clients globally allocated $10bn, via 175 selections, to diversifying investment strategies in 2015. Within this grouping, liquid alternatives attracted the most interest with over $8.1bn, of which approximately half is in smart (...)

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Note Strategic tasks of central banks: focus on the ECB

Beyond the traditional measures and in a context of systemic risk, we wonder about what specifically should be the strategic tasks of a central bank

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Note Financial markets: Local shock but global crisis

The history of crises on financial markets and their amplification during the past 15 years cannot be understood at all if we stick to pure fundamentals. It is necessary to integrate the contagion factor among financial assets and forced selling for commercial, prudential, (...)

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Note ESMA report values EU Alternative Investment Funds at €4.9 trillion

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) today published its first statistical report on European Union (EU) Alternative Investment Funds (AIF). The study finds that the EU AIF sector in 2017, as measured by Net Asset Value (NAV), amounted to (...)

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Note Factor investing in fixed-income: EDHEC-Risk Institute paper shows that it is possible to build duration-timing strategies that are economically superior to bearing unconditional duration risk

The abundance of theoretical and empirical research on factor investing in the equity universe contrasts strongly with the relative scarcity of research on the existence and exploitability of risk premia in bond (...)

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Note Neuberger Berman adapts Sharpe’s ratio to insurance management and prudential risk measurement

This new risk indicator, based on a concept derived from the classic Sharpe ratio, integrates the already existing range of prudential risk measures into the analysis of the strategic asset allocation process and its (...)

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Note EURO STOXX 50® Index implied repo trading at Eurex

This research paper focuses on the inseparable relationship between implied repo rates and equity index total return swaps. Written by Stuart Heath, Director Equity & Index R&D at Eurex, it covers the various aspects and calculations of both repo rates and the (...)

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France’s debt

Outlook, strategies and investment vehicles on France’s debt

Recherche Quantitative

Recherche Quantitative : Quels sont les thèmes qui occupent dorénavant les Quants au sein des salles de marchés et des sociétés de gestion ?

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Kiosk Alternatives to financial markets investments

The financial investment is not limited to financial markets assets and the current uncertainties obviously feed such thoughts. Indeed, there are many investment vehicles that could create value in a portfolio.

Pedagogy Inflation linked bonds’ mechanism

Inflation linked bonds are bonds whose principal is linked to inflation which allows their holders to protected against inflation as opposed to traditional bonds.

Pedagogy 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 (...)

Regulation Solvency II: Advantage convertible bonds

The results of QIS 5 confirmed that convertible bonds bear low capital cost. A balanced-profile convertible bond portfolio with optimized convexity therefore obtains a moderate intrinsic SCR whilst benefiting from «equity» (...)

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