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IMG
Interview , February 2019
Bruno Servant & François Garreau : « Climate change and its consequences is a major challenge for the insurance industry and its business model »
According to Bruno Servant, CIO, Generali France and François Garreau, in charge of CSR, Generali France, as institutional investors, insurance companies have to take long term positions to manage risks in coherence with the long term horizon of its (...)
IMG
Interview , January 2019
Guillaume Abel : “SRI is becoming THE relevant fund management”
According to Guillaume Abel, head of business development of La Banque Postale Asset Management (LBPAM), SRI is becoming THE relevant fund management. LBPAM plans to launch a Green Bond fund to come in 2019 and the creation of tailor-made SRI model portfolios to monitor the (...)
IMG
Interview , January 2019
Héléna Charrier : “Dialogue is the first lever of decarbonisation for investments in the companies financed”
According to Héléna Charrier, director of responsible investment projects at Caisse des Dépôts, Caisse des Dépôts and its subsidiary Bpifrance also want to support the decarbonisation of their investment portfolios in unlisted (...)
IMG
Interview , September 2018
Ten years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers
According to Olaf Tölke, team leader, corporates, Scope Ratings, low interest rates are a major problem because they don’t reflect the true cost of risk. The result is that enterprises and individuals have taken on more and more debt simply because it is (...)
IMG
Interview , December 2017
Isabelle Bourcier : “Our ambitions is to grow in Smart Beta and SRI ETFs”
Evolution of the ETF market, impact of the regulations, ongoing development at BNP Paribas Asset Management...Isabelle Bourcier, Head of quantitative and index management at BNP Paribas Asset Management shares its view with (...)

Opinion

IMG
Opinion, October 2015
Fed: The Art of Evasion
The US Federal Reserve maintained a status quo on its interest rates at its September meeting, thereby extending a period of zero interest rates that has lasted for virtually seven years already. This decision, which ought to have reassured investors, was on the contrary (...)
IMG
Opinion, October 2015
Outlook Brazil
Brazil is in recession territory. The country’s fiscal consolidation plan had a major set-back in July as the finance minister Joaquim Levy announced a significant downward revision of the government’s primary fiscal surplus targets. In august, S&P placed Brazil’s foreign (...)
IMG
Strategy, October 2015
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 (...)
IMG
Opinion, September 2015
A Dovish Fed is Set to Support CTA and Macro Managers
Markets were on standby mode ahead of the Fed’s meeting last week. Hedge funds were flat and there was little dispersion in returns across the managers (see chart). Event-Driven outperformed as equity volatility edged lower. Meanwhile, Fixed Income strategies underperformed (...)
IMG
Opinion, September 2015
The Fed skips its turn... but for how much longer?
We think it is reasonable to bet on an upcoming monetary tightening (next December FOMC): The US economy can fully withstand some interest rate increases; the global economy, probably a bit less; and the financial markets (especially emerging), less still. This means that (...)
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