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News 3 out of 4 risk experts lack confidence in financial institutions processes to prevent a future crisis

A survey of those invited to the fourth annual conference of the Cass-Capco Institute on Risk has found that 73% of global industry and academic experts believe that financial institutions have not instituted adequate risk processes to prevent a future (...)

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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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News 1 in 3 financial institutions lack confidence in recovering quickly from downtime

Acronis Global Disaster Recovery Index shows financial services laggards in new technology uptake

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News State Street Vision report looks at impact of emerging technology on financial services

According to State Street, Cloud Computing and Other Technologies Will Create Paradigm Shift for Investors with Groundbreaking Intelligence, Efficiency...

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News BNP Paribas Securities Services has been appointed global custodian of all life and non-life insurance assets of the MAIF group

The deal covers €13 billion in assets. MAIF is a mutual insurance company at the head of an insurance group that has almost 2.7 million members.

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News The potential for bubbles of shale gas

The operation of shale gas could generate major geopolitical changes: Instead of an increasing reliance on Russia and the Middle East, we would witness an important reshuffling of the cards

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News NewAlpha Asset Management announces the initial closing of its fourth hedge fund seeding vehicle

NewAlpha 4 Genesis has completed its first closing of $150 million raised from French and Swiss institutional investors.

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News BNP Paribas Investment Partners and BNP Paribas CIB announce the creation of THEAM

THEAM will combine BNP Paribas Asset Management’s SIGMA teams with those of Harewood Asset Management which was created in 2004 at the initiative of BNPP CIB’s Equity Derivatives teams.

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News Bill Gross to clear his flagship fund of U.S debt!

The Total Return Fund said not to hold any government paper since the end of February...

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News iShares S&P 500 becomes the largest ETF in Europe

The fund was traded every day during 2010, with an average spread consistently below 10 basis points...

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News Sparinvest Acquires Atrium Asset Management

Sparinvest have announced the acquisition of the fund management business of Atrium Partners, a financial advisory company.

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News 12.97 billion dollars in profits for Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett!

Warren Buffett is jubilant. His fund generated a profit of 12.97 billion dollars in 2010, up 61% ...

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News Investor Confidence Index Falls from 100.8 to 91.6 in February

Globally, Investor Confidence fell 9.2 points from January’s revised reading of 100.8 to reach 91.6...

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News Investors representing $1.6trn in assets renew calls for improved ESG reporting by listed companies

In a move led by Aviva Investors, Some 24 institutional investors have written to 30 stock exchanges across the globe...

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News Towards Treasuries crash ?

Bill Gross, Nassim Taleb and Jim O’Neill believe T-notes could post losses comparable or even worse than those seen in 1994 due to the FED policy...

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News BlackRock Agrees to Acquire Global Infrastructure Partners (“GIP”), Creating a World Leading Infrastructure Private Markets Investment Platform

GIP is the world’s largest independent infrastructure manager with over $100 billion in AUM and a strong reputation for driving operational improvements in its portfolio companies & proprietary origination

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News Julius Baer to acquire Merrill Lynch’s International Wealth Management business outside the United States from Bank of America

BofAML will provide certain products and services to Julius Baer, including the provision of global equity research, product offerings, as well as structured and advisory products. In addition there will be cross-referral of clients between both (...)

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News Agence France Trésor announced the successful launch of the first French sovereign green bond

Today, Agence France Trésor announced the successful launch of the first French sovereign green bond with a maturity of 22 years. The Green OAT 1.75% 25 June 2039 issuance amount was €7bn, making it the largest and longest-dated green bond ever (...)

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News The market for catastrophe bonds (« Cat bonds ») remains dynamic!

Over the 12 months, the market for Cat bonds - bonds issued by securitization structure to refinance insurance risks related to natural disaster - remains dynamic, both in terms of volume and performance...

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News Rouble, Rates Moves Heighten Russian Economy Risks

Risks to Russia’s economy in 2015 have been increased by this week’s extreme volatility in the rouble and the sharp rise in interest rates, Fitch Ratings says.

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News CTAs are on the mend

After a dismal performance and significant outflows in 2018, trend following strategies are on the mend. A month ago, we signaled the strategy was experiencing green shoots of recovery ; so far this month, it has been the best performing (...)

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News Societe Generale further reduces its involvement in coal

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News DWS Supports Drive Towards Climate Resilient Infrastructure Investments

DWS Group, along with more than 30 other institutions, supports the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI). The goal of the CCRI is to transform infrastructure investments by integrating climate risks into the decision-making process, driving a paradigm shift (...)

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News Global macro strategies play safe with U.S. Inflation hedges

In the space of alternatives, Global Macro strategies have embraced reflation trades in the past quarter, scaling up positions on EM FX, equities, commodities and inflation linked bonds at varying degrees.

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News SUEZ successfully launches a 500 million euros green bond issuance

With a 5.5 times oversubscription and an order book totalling 2.7 billion euros, this issuance has been a huge success. More than 200 investors have once again shown their confidence in SUEZ: the very strong demand allowed to tighten the credit margin by 40 bps compared with (...)

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News Gold as collateral for a participation in the Greek support plan

Will Finland jeopardize the Greek plan? The country requires collateral in exchange for its participation in the support plan. The German labour minister, Ursula Von Der Leyen, has agreed to those terms…

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News Vauban Infrastructure Partners acquires four district heating networks in Spain - a green projet connecting more than 25,000 dwellings by 2028

Vauban Infrastructure Partners announces the closing of the transaction related to the acquisition of 100% stake in 4 district heating networks in Spain, an eminently “green project” connecting more than 25,000 dwellings to these networks by (...)

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News Schroders Greencoat builds on renewable energy demand with launch of semi-liquid energy transition fund

Schroders Greencoat, the specialist renewables and energy transition infrastructure manager of Schroders Capital, today announces the launch of the Schroders Capital Semi-Liquid Energy Transition Fund, the latest addition to its innovative fund range which also addresses (...)

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News Nomura to Acquire Shares of 8 Securities and 8 Limited

Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (“NAM”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with FinTech company 8 Securities Inc. (“8 Securities”) and its Hong Kong headquartered parent company 8 Limited (“8 Limited”) (...)

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News Goldman Sachs hit by trading losses

Goldman’s traders lost up to €100 million in a single session, according to Bank’s regulatory filing to the U.S. market authority

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