January 2012
Stories Axa Rosenberg: a $217 million bug.
The American quantitative management firm is struggling to get over a scandal that originated from an IT error and which lead 600 of its clients to lose money.
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January 2012
Note Assessment of the true risks of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
According to EDHEC-Risk Institute, any discussion of the risks inherent in ETFs should go beyond merely hypothesising about potential risks, and should also take into account the empirical evidence provided by the existing academic research on (...)
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January 2012
Note Major innovations in weighting methodologies for equity and bond indices
According to Christian Lopez, Head of Research at CPR-AM, the four largest families of alternative indices are low volatility/minimum variance, equally-weighted, indices weighted by micro or macro fundamentals and maximum diversification (...)
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December 2011
Opinion Do the layoffs at Crédit Agricole represent a sharp decline in French banks?
The layoffs have unquestionably impacted the personnel of the French banks but a greater malaise reigns. A top ranked outgoing senior executive considers the current situation as symbolizing an unprecedented weakening of French (...)
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December 2011
News Crédit Agricole CIB to withdraw from equity derivatives and commodities activities.
The french bank unveils a new corporate and investment banking model centred on serving major clients and the closure of operations in 21 countries
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November 2011
Strategy Longevity Swap: Deutsche Bank to hedge Rolls-Royce Pension Fund
Deutsche Bank has entered into a longevity swap with the Trustees of the Rolls-Royce Pension Fund. Under the agreement, Deutsche Bank will hedge the longevity exposures of the scheme
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November 2011
Strategy Systematic managers call into question the status of core European sovereign debt as a risk-free asset
Global Macro managers explicitly follow defensive strategies: short exposure to equities (around -20%) and long exposure to the US sovereign debt. On their side, CTAs managers are more aggressive...
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November 2011
Interview Sidney Rostan : « The market for cats bonds is primarily a buy and hold market »
According to Sidney Rostan, structurer in the Global Structured Credit & Solutions team at Natixis, the current market environment is favorable for cats bonds due to injections of capital from institutional investors looking for (...)
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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
Interview Jean-Louis Bertrand : « Many companies have recognized the need to hedge against weather risk »
According to Jean-Louis Bertrand, an expert in weather risk management with METNEXT, this risk is likely over $ 400 billion per year, comparable to the foreign exchange risk. The business demand for hedging would be in the process of structuring the market (...)
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November 2011
Pedagogy How to develop a quantitative model for stock picking ?
Cyrille Collet, Christian Lopez and Alexander Decoene from CPR AM show us how to make static combinations of factors to create a model for stock picking on a given universe ...
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November 2011
Strategy Jean-Louis Nakamura and Jérôme Teiletche : «risk-parity portfolios provide real diversification »
According to Jean-Louis Nakamura, CIO Asset Allocation and Jerome Teiletche, Head of Systematic Strategies and Alternative Portfolio Construction at Lombard Odier, the Risk parity approach is a growing interest to pension funds (...)
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November 2011
Stories Capital Fund Management: Simply the best?
Discus Fund, one of CFM flagship funds, posted 23 percent year-to-date positive returns as of october end, the best performance amongst all the global systematic funds. This is the confirmation the know-how of the French manager which has shown exceptional trackrecords for (...)
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November 2011
Note How can funds with past sustainable returns collapse in a few months?
Are these abrupt changes only an indication of the risks of the market, or is it investment behaviour which favours the occurance of these extreme risks ? These are the question tackled in the last « White Paper » of (...)
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November 2011
Interview Arnaud Chrétien and Serge Darolles : «The objective of QuantValley is to become the calling card for French Quantitive management»
Challenges, positioning and quantative management outlook in France. Arnaud Chrétien and Serge Darolles, respectively Chairman and deputy chairman of QuantValley, answer our questions and introduce us to their project aimed at promoting Paris’ image as a city of (...)
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