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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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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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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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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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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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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Opinion Today’s European country in the sovereign debt crisis spotlight is…France
Russell Investments’ Chief Investment officer – Client Investment Strategies Erik Ristuben explains why the European sovereign debt crisis is spilling over into France
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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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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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Regulation Extension of the ban on the taking of net short positions in ten French securities of the financial sector
The Board of the AMF considered that the market conditions were not satisfactory to lift the said ban.
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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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Salary & Bonus Michel Camdessus issues his report on the traders’ bonuses
According to Michel Camdessus, the application of new standards and the action of bonuses supervisor have reduced 2009 bonus pool by 800 million euros ...
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Profile Job market: Private Banking and Wealth Management
How to build, manage and retain staff? What are the evaluation criteria for good wealth managers ? What are the market’s compensation levels ? Specialised recruitment company, Norman Alex, shares with us their analysis and (...)
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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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People Moves Redundancy plan: Société Générale to join the party
The announcements of job cuts in investment banking continues. After a year fueled by rumors, Société Générale has officially announced the implementation of a voluntary departure plan for approximately 880 investment bankers (...)
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