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IMG
Interview , December 2019
Jean-Philippe Médecin : « The CNP’s subordinated green bond issue was a great success »
CNP Assurances has successfully launched its first subordinated green bond issuance. Jean-Philippe Médecin, the director of the prop trading and financing department at CNP Assurances, gave us more details.
IMG
Interview , May 2019
Simon Bond : “Our European Social Bond Fund is carefully managed with a mix of maturities to offer daily liquidity”
According to Simon Bond, Threadneedle (Lux) European Social Bond Fund manager, the fund aims to balance three key elements: clear social impact, daily liquidity and financial return with a similar risk/return profile as a regular investment grade (...)
IMG
Interview , April 2019
Pascal Koenig : « We believe that these concentration movements should continue, including among the leading players »
According to Pascal Koenig, Partner at Deloitte, Head of asset management, the operations of M&A, search for new shareholders, team transfers have multiplied in France in recent months. He believes that these concentration movements should continue, including among the (...)
IMG
Interview , March 2019
Pierre Valentin ; “We have placed SRI at the heart of our investment philosophy”
According to Pierre Valentin, chairman of Ecofi Investissements, except for wealth management Ecofi’s entire range of open funds is 100 % SRI this year, whether it for equity, bond, money market or multi-asset funds.
IMG
Interview , March 2019
Climate change: from fantasy to reality
Global warming has been an issue for many years now. It is often regarded as a long-term challenge. That is certainly true, except that the “long term” is now close at hand, and climate change’s economic impact can already be measured in several major (...)

Opinion

IMG
Opinion, March 2015
Europe – The darkest hour is just before the dawn
The European Central Bank (ECB) is embarking on quantitative easing (QE) at a time when tailwinds are already beginning to build behind the euro area economy. Threadneedle Investments’ fixed income fund manager Martin Harvey asks if we can dare to dream of a brighter (...)
IMG
Opinion, March 2015
No big bang budget in India
India’s Union Budget, announced on the 28th February, broadly delivered what markets were looking for, but will have disappointed some expectations.
IMG
Opinion, March 2015
Taking the Silk Road
The year of the goat, which has just begun, looks likely to herald a major push by China to establish a new “Silk Road”, the adoption of a new five-year plan to boost the country’s social and economic development and a pick-up in the pace of financial reform, according to Ross (...)
IMG
Opinion, March 2015
The standoff between Greece and its partners is clearly softening
According to Eric Chaney Head of Research at AXA Investment Managers, this will not be the end of the Greek saga, since funding will remain quite challenging until the last tranche of the bailout is disbursed and the interest payments on the bonds held by the ECB are paid to (...)
IMG
Opinion, February 2015
China goes for ’gently does it’
Chinese economic reforms continue, but the authorities are going about it carefully. After all, they don’t want to risk missing their growth targets. Oil-price declines and the US growth recovery are providing some welcome wind in China’s (...)
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