November 2012
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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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
News Momentum continues for alternative strategies
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index gained 0.2% in September (+2.2% in 2012). 11 Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 14 ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor Event Driven - Special Situations Index (+2.2%) and the Lyxor L/S Equity – Long Bias Index (...)
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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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September 2012
Note Huge private protection gap among European consumers: Life insurance products should become more attractive, more affordable and easier to understand
Swiss Re will today publish the European Insurance Report 2012 highlighting potential gaps between the insurance industry’s product offerings and current consumer demand.
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September 2012
Note The scale of longevity risk is too vast for insurers alone without the development of a capital market!
A liquid capital market in longevity risk can ensure long-term funding of people’s longer lives, says Swiss Re’s newest publication, A mature market: Building a capital market for longevity risk.
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September 2012
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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September 2012
Pedagogy New milestones achieved in Eurex’s futures on French government bonds
Eurex Exchange has recently set several new records in its Euro-OAT Futures. In August 2012, open interest exceeded for the first time the 100,000 threshold with 104,869 contracts. Trading volume in July also set a new record, both in average daily volume with about 19,600 (...)
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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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May 2012
Opinion Financial correlations and loss of common sense
Isn’t correlation in finance charlatanry? We analyze this question through 4 situations that have been observed on financial markets with final investors, asset managers and proprietary traders.
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April 2012
Interview Jean Louis Monnier : « There is a very practical demonstration of the decorrelation of the ILS market »
According to Jean Louis Monnier, head of European ILS at Swiss Re, direct investment in Insurance Linked Securities is a market reserved to qualified institutional investors which manage a minimum of 100 million dollars and which have the ability to evaluate the risk (...)
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March 2012
Opinion Robots have taken power in finance
Describe the real world with numbers is a trend that seems to be accelerating. Thus, digital technology is associated with financial models to show that we (human) interact with our environment using mathematical (...)
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February 2012
Pedagogy Variable Annuities : the future of Life Insurance ?
As products at the forefront of finance and Insurance which propose a number of types of guarantees and multiple options corresponding, in theory, to the essential needs of clients (availability of funds, profitability, security), Variable Annuity stands to become the new (...)
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