Unigestion, an institutional asset manager that focuses on providing its clients with a tailor-made range of risk-managed investment solutions, announces the launch of its Private Debt Allocator tool, which identifies private debt opportunities to exactly match clients’ (...)
Lyxor launches the first ETF on the top rated high yield corporate bonds
Lyxor Asset Management (Lyxor) announces the launch of an ETF that offers investors access to EUR-denominated corporate bonds with the highest sub-investment grade credit rating in order to offer a potential higher (...)
Lombard Odier Investment Managers and ETF Securities join forces to offer fundamental fixed income exchange traded funds
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (“Lombard Odier IM”), a pioneer in smart beta fixed income investing, and ETF Securities, one of the world’s leading innovators of exchange traded products (“ETPs”), have partnered to offer a range of transparent, cost-effective and (...)
Source launches currency-hedged share classes of its JPX-Nikkei 400 ETF
Source, a leading provider of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), is pleased to announce the launch of USD- and EUR-hedged share classes of the Source JPX-Nikkei 400 UCITS ETF. At the same time, Source has reduced the annual management fee on the unhedged ETF to 0.20% from (...)
European ETF market flows slowed down substantially in April 2017. Net New Assets (NNA) during the month amounted to EUR4.4bn, the lowest since December 2016. Total Assets under Management are up 11% vs. the end of 2016, reaching EUR572bn, including a positive market impact (...)
Exit Frexit: Special Situations and CTAs take the Podium
All strategies were up last week. Hedge funds captured the upside which was a function of the protections implemented ahead of the French vote. Special Situations outperformed, as their cyclical and turnaround positions surged. CTAs’ strong long equity exposure offset losses (...)
European Smart Beta ETF market flows accelerated in Q1 2017 at EUR1.8bn.
Total Assets under Management are up 11% vs. the end of 2016, reaching EUR 31.8 billion and including a positive market impact (+4.2%). Net New Assets into Smart Beta ETFs have already reached a quarter of the record high EUR7bn figure reached in (...)
This year, 12 new companies are entering in the new label composition, selected by a group of independent European experts, based on capital markets, economic and financial performance criteria. The companies are also added to the eponymous index, composed exclusively of the (...)
According to Lyxor Cross Asset Research, most strategies were up in Q1, with Event-Driven outperforming and CTAs underperforming. Within Event-Driven, special situations funds are leading the pack.