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Note, January 2012
Major innovations in weighting methodologies for equity and bond indices
According to Christian Lopez, Head of Research at CPR-AM, the four largest families of alternative indices are low volatility/minimum variance, equally-weighted, indices weighted by micro or macro fundamentals and maximum diversification (...)
IMG
Note, November 2011
How can funds with past sustainable returns collapse in a few months?
Are these abrupt changes only an indication of the risks of the market, or is it investment behaviour which favours the occurance of these extreme risks ? These are the question tackled in the last « White Paper » of (...)
IMG
Note, October 2011
Estimating the Real Rate of Return on Stock Index
Judicious use of the rate of return framework on equity, or "cost of capital" facilitates decision-making within the financial industry by providing a metric for comparing different stock markets between them but also a comparison to other asset (...)
IMG
Strategy, October 2011
Management of hedge fund portfolios during crisis periods: the contribution of systematic overlays
The implementation of systematic overlays can be considered as an alternative to short-term rebalancing of hedge fund portfolios, or as an active component of alternative allocations.
IMG
Opinion, May 2011
Mathematical models in finance and embedded risk underestimation
The statistical assumption of normal (log-normal) distribution of stock returns (prices) is not that strong and tail events’ occurrence is largely undervalued. Nevertheless, this modeling framework has been widely used for strong (...)

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IMG
Note, September 2014
Russia well-positioned against non-energy sanctions in the short term
Border tensions are high, information on the conflict zone is incomplete and misleading, and soft-tone diplomacy is not doing the trick. As conflict resolution remains out of sight, international sanctions against Russia are increasingly likely to continue for longer, (...)
IMG
Note, September 2014
Retirement – The French paradox: savers choose very safe investments while harboring grand hopes as regards revenue and capital appreciation
Natixis Global Asset Management today published the results of its 1st annual survey of French individual investors with financial assets of between €75,000 and €300,000 held in banks. This survey of 984 clients of French banks was conducted in July (...)
IMG
Note, August 2014
Surging dividend growth from Europe drives global company pay-out boom
Global investors are enjoying a bumper year for dividends, according to the latest Global Dividend Index (HGDI) from Henderson Global Investors. Overall pay-outs grew 11.7% year on year in the second quarter to a new record of $426.8bn, an increase of (...)
IMG
Note, July 2014
Hedge funds: The CTAs drift
Since mid-2011, CTAs cumulative loss is between -10.6% (HFRI macro systematic index) and -16.8% (Credit Suisse Managed Futures Index). For the first quarter of this year, CTAs show a drawdown of about 3% which is expected to increase in April (-0.66% for HFRX CTA index) (...)
IMG
Note, July 2014
EDHEC-Risk Institute study shows room to improve investment solutions in the Australian super system
Latest research argues that the Australian superannuation industry could be further strengthened by the development of an industry-led reporting standard and certification scheme.
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