Salary & Bonus Determination of Salaries
How are salaries fixed? Are they controlled by companies? Or by the State? Perhaps they are controlled by syndicates? Or is it an obscure system controlled by hidden forces? Not at all. Long term, it?s a different (...)
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Opinion Overview of Quantitative Finance in France
A short review of quantitative finance in France under the lens of the Next Finance website: Profile of quants, origins and outlook of the industry.
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Note Impact of collective influences on forecast and investment decisions
The valuation of financial assets, by financial analysts and the investment decisions of fund managers, depend on the paradigm of economic rationalisation. However, it is clear that there are uncertainties and instabilities which have characterised the financial market for (...)
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News 2010 report on European asset management : specialists laugh, global players cry!
According to a study of Morningstar, the year 2010 has been a blank year for the European traditional industry of fund management with a strong outflow in the money market offset by inflows on risky assets ...
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News Nexar Capital Group, a global alternative investment manager, acquires Ermitage
Nexar Capital Group SCA announced yesterday the acquisition of Ermitage Limited, one of Europe’s pioneering alternative asset management organizations, from Caledonia Investments plc
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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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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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Salary & Bonus France strengthens bonuses supervision
France steps up supervision of market operators’ bonuses with the implementation of European Directive CRD3
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Opinion The «French Quants» must relearn to code!
In France, many financial engineers feel some aversion for IT. Some, fascinated by models, don’t consider for a second writing thousands of lines of code…
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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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News Rumors were close to destroy the Société Générale
4 Billion losses related to ETFs, losses in its Greek subsidiary and ECB rescue amounting € 5 Billion...this is an anthology of the rumors that ran in the markets about Société Générale.
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Regulation Contractual OPCVM: a flexible and secure tool at the disposal of French asset managers
The french contractual OPCVM, in its configuration post october 2008 application decree, is a tool with features of interest for management companies, investors and service providers.
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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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Opinion French alternative management: Towards a strong financial centre.
Following to their study on strenghts and weaknesses of France as an alternative management financial centre, Reinhold & Partners give us the main considerations for moving towards a strong financial center.
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Note Islamic finance : 10 proposals to attract 100 billion Euros in savings !
The rise of Islamic finance is a fundamental trend and not a fad. It is part of a considerable market representing 700 billion dollars !
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«Talents de la Gestion 2011» Awards -
March 2011
