July 2011
Note 10 to €12 billion of structured loans exhibit a high potential risk!
According to Didier Migaud, president of French revenue court, loans with interest rates linked to spreads out of the eurozone should be banned as well as those using leverage...
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July 2011
Note Reinvention in the Hedge Fund Industry
State Street Corporation released a new Vision Report today, entitled “Hedge Funds: Rebuilding on a New Foundation.” The report examines the re-emergence of the hedge fund industry and the new dynamic between investors, hedge funds, and hedge fund (...)
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July 2011
Note Real estate: Attempting to explain the increase in prices.
The situation appears to be a paradox. France is just coming out of a crisis but real estate prices have sharply increased during the previous months and have only slightly decreased at the height of the crisis. How can this phenomenon be (...)
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July 2011
Note Euro zone bailout plans: origin and utilization
Back on bailout plans granted to countries in the Euro zone encountering severe fiscal deficits since May 2010. How are tens of billions Euros raised, what are they for, and mainly, are those amounts enough to re-establish the public finances and stabilize those countries (...)
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June 2011
Note Sorting out the Greek issue
The aim of this short article is to set the ideas straight regarding the Greek situation. Several issues are considered, the first of which being that of economic growth. If the latter does not make any progress, it will be very difficult to reach public finance stability. (...)
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June 2011
Note 10 proposals to rebuild finance and monetary macroeconomics
Rethink monetary policy and its objectives, reform our accounting and prudential environment, review the return on equity standards, regulate the prices of certain assets...
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June 2011
Note The Family Office : An past present and future approach
In the face of often complex needs of people who have large and important family wealth a team of specialists with a single interlocutor is more and more being grouped into a unit called the family office.
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May 2011
Note Aging population poses new opportunities for global investment managers
Early conclusions from ongoing SimCorp StrategyLab research point to demographic changes as a key factor influencing the future of the global investment management industry.
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April 2011
Note The possible misdiagnosis of a crisis
According to a publication of Prof. Richard Roll in the Financial Analyst Journal, most explanations of the 2007–08 financial crisis are inconsistent with elementary principles of finance. The article explains the inconsistencies and suggests an alternative diagnosis that is (...)
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April 2011
Note Trying to assess the Cajas’ mess
The real estate bubble was huge and now Spanish banks are in a mess. Two questions come to mind: why does this comes into the spotlight so late ? what is the exact size of the mess and what is the possible impact of a full stress scenario on financial markets (...)
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April 2011
Note Launch of green bonds
The term «Green Bonds» is more frequently used to describe a market that should mature very fast in order to deal with numerous requests for investments in the field of green infrastructure projects.
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March 2011
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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March 2011
Note Golden parachutes: as their importance to CEOs increases, shareholders lose out in takeovers
A 10 per cent increase in the importance of the parachute relative to the merger pay package is linked to a five per cent fall in acquisition premium
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January 2011
Note The frantic flight to liquidity and solvency
Some markets have been exhibiting dysfunctions for nearly 4 years. The flight to liquidity and compliance with solvency requirements of banks and states with financial issues, have been - and still is - only ensured by non-conventional financing provisions and emergency (...)
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December 2010
Note Strengths and weaknesses of France as an alternative management financial centre
According to a study conducted by Reinhold & Partners, despite recognised human and technical resources, French alternative asset management, for reasons specific to the French market, and because it is suffering from a lack of image, has not developed as (...)
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