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News Montupet’s Board of Directors supports Linamar’s draft tender offer

The Board of Directors of Montupet met on October 14, 2015 to review the terms and conditions of the draft Voluntary Cash Tender Offer. Linamar intends to file for 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of the Company at €71.53 per (...)

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News Montupet’s Board of Directors supports Linamar’s draft tender offer

The Board of Directors of Montupet met on October 14, 2015 to review the terms and conditions of the draft Voluntary Cash Tender Offer. Linamar intends to file for 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of the Company at €71.53 per (...)

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News Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Fund Manager Survey October 2015

Investors are expressing growing skepticism that the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) will raise rates this year amid fragility in the global economy and earnings, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for (...)

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News Scope considers the sovereign credit of France to be strong but highlights challenging trends

Scope Ratings noted that France is one of the wealthiest economies in the world, displaying a highly diversified economic structure, adding that it has weathered the financial and sovereign crisis reasonably well.

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News EIB and World Bank join forces with new agreement to support Ukraine

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and World Bank (WB) today signed an agreement under EU guarantee that aims to facilitate the purchase of gas by Ukraine’s national gas company, NJSC Naftogaz.

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News CalPERS to Set Talks With Thermal Coal Companies

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced that it will begin to engage thermal coal companies in its investment portfolio on climate change risks as a first step required by Senate Bill 185, authored by Senator Kevin de Leon, and signed by (...)

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News European ETF market flows recorded relatively low net flow levels in September 2015

Net New Assets (NNA) during this month amounted to EUR 1.9 billion, close to June 2015’s level of EUR 1.5 billion. Total Assets under Management are up 14% vs. the end of 2014, reaching EUR 414 billion including a 2.15% market (...)

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News Euronext announces record trading in rapeseed

Euronext today announced record trading in its Rapeseed grains Futures contract on 6 October 2015 with 21,140 lots traded. This record surpasses the previous record of 20,881 lots in October 2013.

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News Kepler Cheuvreux and CIMB seal binding Cooperation Agreement

Partnership will address customers’ need for cross-distribution of equity research across Asian and European markets, and establish a single global program trading platform

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News European banks’ mixed recovery boosts RORWA

Returns on risk-weighted assets compiled by SNL Financial show that European banks are beginning to recover after a long period in the wilderness.

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News Euronext announces monthly trading volumes for september 2015

The September 2015 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €8,071 million (+35% compared with September 2014). It was the most active September month in terms of average daily transaction value since 2008. Furthermore, 18 September was the (...)

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News Growth in Brazil’s wealthy to pick up

According to a new report from WealthInsight, Brazil’s wealthiest are set to grow at a fast pace, with the majority of these new millionaires and multimillionaires earning their wealth from financial services.

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News CalPERS Announces Results of its 2015 PRI Assessment Report

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has released the results of its Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Assessment Report. CalPERS received an A+ for the 2015 Overarching Approach Module, which is the highest grade a signatory can receive (...)

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News Fitch: US Govt Shutdown Would Not Have Direct Ratings Impact

A US government shutdown would not have a direct impact on the sovereign’s ’AAA’/Stable rating, Fitch Ratings says. Its main implication for the US’s sovereign creditworthiness would depend on whether it foreshadowed a destabilisation of US budget policymaking, including (...)

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News Mirova raises €600 million and surpasses its initial target for its first brownfield Infrastructure fund, the Mirova Core Infrastructure Fund

Mirova, a wholly owned subsidiary of Natixis Asset Management dedicated to socially responsible investments across various asset classes, today announces that it is nearing the final close for its first brownfield infrastructure fund, the Mirova Core Infrastructure Fund SCS (...)

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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 Societe Generale further reduces its involvement in coal

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News Swiss Re Corporate Solutions joins forces with Seguros Confianza, Colombia’s leading specialty insurer, and acquires a majority stake

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions and owners of Compañía Aseguradora de Fianzas S.A. Confianza ("Confianza") have signed an agreement under which Corporate Solutions will acquire a 51% stake in Confianza. This arrangement will provide Colombian corporate clients local access to (...)

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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 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 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 ISEAL’s First Infrastructure Standard: SuRe® – The Standard for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

Infrastructure development in cities is key to fighting climate change and fostering sustainable development. Cities need to become more inclusive, resilient and sustainable as stated by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Number (...)

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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 French bank Société Générale victim of exceptional fraud!

Société Générale has declared itself a victim of an unscrupulous trader who concealed a massive loss of 4,9 billion dollars as well as a depreciation of assets linked to sub-primes to a total of 2 billion euros....

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