February 14
Interview Bruno Servant & François Garreau : « Climate change and its consequences is a major challenge for the insurance industry and its business model »
According to Bruno Servant, CIO, Generali France and François Garreau, in charge of CSR, Generali France, as institutional investors, insurance companies have to take long term positions to manage risks in coherence with the long term horizon of its (...)
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January 31
Interview Guillaume Abel : “SRI is becoming THE relevant fund management”
According to Guillaume Abel, head of business development of La Banque Postale Asset Management (LBPAM), SRI is becoming THE relevant fund management. LBPAM plans to launch a Green Bond fund to come in 2019 and the creation of tailor-made SRI model portfolios to monitor the (...)
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January 15
Interview The Rise of TRFs – How Funds Use Them to Generate Alpha
Hedge funds and traditional institutional investors are increasingly turning to total return futures (TRFs) to get exposure to the repo market related to an underlying index such as the EURO STOXX 50® Index. Antoine Deix, Senior Equity Derivatives Strategist at BNP Paribas, (...)
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January 10
Interview Héléna Charrier : “Dialogue is the first lever of decarbonisation for investments in the companies financed”
According to Héléna Charrier, director of responsible investment projects at Caisse des Dépôts, Caisse des Dépôts and its subsidiary Bpifrance also want to support the decarbonisation of their investment portfolios in unlisted (...)
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September 2018
Interview Ten years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers
According to Olaf Tölke, team leader, corporates, Scope Ratings, low interest rates are a major problem because they don’t reflect the true cost of risk. The result is that enterprises and individuals have taken on more and more debt simply because it is (...)
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December 2017
Interview Régis Pinguet : “The two criteria used to select ETFs are its assets under management and on the other hand its replication methodology.”
Régis Pinguet, head of the fund selection and analysis department at CNP Assurances, tells us more about its use of ETFs
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December 2017
Interview Christophe Cattoir : “For our equity fund - weighing 10% of our assets - the trackers represent approximately 25% of our allocation”
Christophe Cattoir, head of asset management at M comme Mutuelle chooses firstly trackers with high quality of index replication. Secondly, he makes sure to choose top ETF providers because these products carry a counterparty (...)
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December 2017
Interview Pieter Entius : « Eurex Market-on-Close (MOC) delivers a listed solution for basis trading »
Higher efficiency and less risk - Eurex Market-on-Close Futures are designed to deliver multiple benefits to a market that has so far been dominated by OTC trading. Pieter Entius, Head of Trading at Flow Traders, shares his insights what are the key drivers and benefits from (...)
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November 2017
Interview Estelle Ménard : "The cycle of mergers and acquisitions is far from over"
Estelle Ménard, Deputy Head of Thematic Equities Management and Fund Manager of the fund CPR Invest–Europe Special Situations at CPR AM believes that an environment of long-term moderate growth is a strong driver for boosting both economic and financial restructuring (...)
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October 2017
Interview Philippe Goubeault : « More than twenty percent of our total reserves are managed through a process based on non-financial criteria »
According to Philippe Goubeault, CFO of Agirc-Arrco, Responsible finance has become an essential part of its investment policy. As a result, all their request for proposals now include an SRI part.
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October 2017
Interview Christian Carrega : « In the case of the Préfon-Retraite insurance contract, investment decisions comply with an SRI filter »
According to Christian Carrega, CEO of Préfon and President of Préfon-Distribution, in the case of the Préfon-Retraite insurance contract, investment decisions comply with an SRI filter and insurers that invest directly in securities pay attention to the rating of (...)
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October 2017
Interview Fiona Reynolds : « The idea that sustainability equated to diminished returns has been steadily eroded with numerous studies »
Fiona Reynolds, Managing Director of the PRI (United Nations) gives us her point of view on SRI in the investment world. According to the idea that sustainability equated to diminished returns has been steadily eroded with numerous (...)
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September 2017
Interview Julien Bras : « We have about one hundred securities, with 89 % of our assets invested in green bonds »
According to Julien Bras, co-fund manager of the Allianz Green Bond fund, the strategy invests primarily in green bonds issued by companies, government agencies and supranational entities...
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July 2017
Interview RARE Infrastructure’s View on Trump’s infrastructure plan
According to Richard Elmslie, Co-Chief?Executive?Officer, Co-Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager, Trump’s administration needs to establish a framework that needs to be robust enough to provide the private equity and debt sufficient comfort that, over the life of (...)
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July 2017
Interview Aude Lerivrain : « Can we invest in the chinese banking sector without worries? »
According to Aude Lerivrain, Head of Credit Research at CPR AM, we are seeing in the Chinese banking system many of the early warning signs of the major banking crises of recent years (in the US, Ireland and Spain)...
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