October 2011
Note Banks Recapitalization : Implications for hybrid debt holders
Who will be recapitalized and how much? How recapitalization work? And most importantly, for investors, how does it impact bank hybrid debt? These are the issues addressed by Philip Hall, Volatility and Credit Quantitative Manager and President of Axiom Alternative (...)
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October 2011
Note HSBC’s Study on the future of retirement highlights the particular vulnerability of women
The aim of this study is to understand the repercussions of increasing life expectancy on the behaviour of individuals regarding retirement and how they prepare for it financially, with an emphasis on the family’s role in preparing and planning for retirement and the role (...)
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October 2011
Note Successful merger : lets make no mistake about the objective
What a pity that those acquisitions or mergers in which the due diligence have been the most well researched, with the most detailed business plan, the most unanimously approved strategies, are not those which are always the most successful in the long (...)
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October 2011
Note Survey: European investors are optimistic for the future of the Euro
It emerges from an poll, conducted by the Global Alliance of Investors, dealing with institutional investors in Europe, that 80% of those questioned, believe in the ability of the euro to cope with current challenges. British investors are less (...)
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October 2011
Note Listed family controlled businesses: an equity investment case
According SG Private Banking Equity research team, when talking about family owned businesses, one very often thinks about mom and pop’s diner; it is counting without the international brands. Family controlled firms are the most resilient and provide good vehicles to come (...)
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October 2011
Note Estimating the Real Rate of Return on Stock Index
Judicious use of the rate of return framework on equity, or "cost of capital" facilitates decision-making within the financial industry by providing a metric for comparing different stock markets between them but also a comparison to other asset (...)
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October 2011
Note The factors that determine the carbon price: an econometric analysis
Emission allowances are both physical and financial assets. As for any asset, it then becomes possible to study the potential gap between the value observed on the market and the value dictated by fundamentals…
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October 2011
Note 1 out of 3 Europeans have lost confidence in financial advisors since the 2008 crisis
According to the results of a Fidelity Investments poll on the confidence of investors, the country which is the most critical of financial advisors, singling itself out by its strong resistance to paying for advice, is (...)
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September 2011
Note Local culture influences investment returns
According to INTRA Study of 45 Nations, local cultural differences continue to exert an influence on investment behaviour and returns. The Nordic and Germanic cultures are best suited to value investing in terms of their patience, unlike African and Eastern European (...)
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September 2011
Note Hedge funds, a solution for struggling public pension plans ?
It is the conclusion of a paper entitled «The Changing Role of Hedge Funds in the Global Economy » written by Dr. Everett Ehrlich. He would expect more state and local governments will make them part of the solution moving (...)
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September 2011
Note Carbon leakage or desirable abatement? The curious case of aluminium
If there has been carbon leakage during Phases I & II of the EU ETS, primary aluminium seems, at first glance, like a good candidate for it. The sector competes intensively with producers outside of Europe
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September 2011
Note Current approaches inadequate for assessing future longevity
The substantial increases in life expectancy witnessed in recent decades have been consistently underestimated, a new Swiss Re research report reveals. Robust, predictive approaches using forward-looking scenarios are (...)
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August 2011
Note The July – August 2011 market crash. Technical analysis and long term issues!
According to Jacques Ninet, head of research at UFG-LFP, it is obvious that the monetary European Union (an imperfect Trojan horse towards federalism) only gets half the job done when it comes to forging economic (...)
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July 2011
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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July 2011
Note Financial markets and self-fulfilling prophecies
This phenomenon is equivalent to the change from a brutal economic and financial equilibrium to another, not because the fundamentals of the macroeconomic environment would justify it, but because there was a change for good or bad reasons of market (...)
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