February 2016
Strategy Time to invest in Convertible Bonds? by Tarek Saber, Head of Convertible Bonds at NN Investment Partners
If you’ve been brainstorming your investment resolutions for 2016, you’re not alone. The beginning of a year is a great time to revisit your investment portfolio. So how would convertible bonds (CBs) fit into an investor’s new year’s (...)
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January 2016
Strategy Natixis Asset Management’s outlook and investment strategies: where to get value in 2016?
Natixis Asset Management foresees growth picking up in the euro zone, aided by an everaccommodating ECB, even if global growth should remain moderate again this year...
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January 2016
Strategy Solactive starts benchmark offering - Sets the foundation for new smart beta index creation
Solactive, one of the growing player in the index space, made a strategic decision to enter the benchmark index business with the launch of benchmark families in the equity as well as the fixed income space...
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December 2015
Strategy Investing in Strong Brands Doubles Returns over S&P Average
It has long been acknowledged that powerful brands drive stakeholder preference, improving business performance and ultimately increasing shareholder value. However, for the first time the extent of this effect has been (...)
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December 2015
Strategy Trading FED vs. ECB benefits macro strategies
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was he Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was he Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up+0.7% in November November. 4 out of 11 Lyxor Indices ended the month in positive territory. The Lyxor CTA Long Term Index (+3.6%), the Lyxor Global Macro Index (+1.8%), and the (...)
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December 2015
Strategy Gregory Guerrand : " Our Low Carbon 100 Europe Theam Easy UCITS ETF is a solution for investors who want to decarbonise their portfolio "
Gregory Guerrand, a specialist in index investments at THEAM, has agreed to answer a few questions about the Low Carbon 100 Europe Theam Easy UCITS exchange-traded fund (ETF).
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December 2015
Strategy Newton Investment Management announces two new investment themes
Newton Investment Management, an investment boutique of BNY Mellon Investment Management, today revealed two new investment themes which have been built into its well-established thematic approach: "abundance" and "mind the (...)
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November 2015
Strategy Volatility and absence of momentum in 2016 mean a tactical approach is needed
Volatility and absence of momentum in 2016 mean a tactical approach is needed, says Christophe Donay, Chief Strategist at Pictet Wealth Management
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November 2015
Strategy Bank of Japan: stupor or fear?
Since the 2008 crisis, central banks have had a major influence on financial market trends. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) in particular has orchestrated a historic rally among Japanese equity markets since announcing its quantitative and qualitative easing strategy (QQE) at the (...)
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November 2015
Strategy El Niño: Winds of Change for Commodity Prices?
Based on their data, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the organization responsible for identifying global weather patterns, is predicting a greater than 90% chance that El Niño will continue through the northern hemisphere winter in 2015-2016 and (...)
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November 2015
Strategy Risk concentration stronger than risk perception
The risk concentration index (RCI) for a diversified portfolio had been on a downtrend since the start of 2014. The latest risk aversion spell has brought this to an end. This index, which measures the diversity of risk sources, peaked when markets were mainly guided by the (...)
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October 2015
Strategy Navigating the Storm: In Risk budgeting and alpha we trust
According to Nicolas Gaussel, Chief Investment Officer at Lyxor Asset Management, long-term risk premium exist because there are market tempests. He advises to stay invested into Hedge Funds and risk budgeting strategies: they have added value in the past decades and this (...)
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October 2015
Strategy Is traditional asset allocation no longer an option?
Sometimes, I wonder if asset allocators realise how lucky they used to be. We used to have the luxury of combining bonds with equities to form a diversified portfolio. Sovereign bonds – from many countries – used to be of high quality. But I am afraid that those times are now (...)
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September 2015
Strategy Barclays’s Top Trades
Barclays read recent Chinese measures as evidence that officials are accepting that the country’s growth trend has been hit by the build-up of imbalances that can no longer be sustained. Barclays’s analysts think that a lower Chinese growth trend, more than the cyclical (...)
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September 2015
Strategy Long or short, Andreas Schmidt?
The Global Head of Primary Private Equity at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management discusses opportunities and risks in co-investments...
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