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Interview

IMG
Interview , May 2016
Caroline Le Meaux Lambert : « We are looking for strategies able to benefit from upward equity trends while limiting volatility »
Caroline Le Meaux Lambert, head of delegated asset management at Caisse des Dépôts for the French public pension fund Ircantec, tells us a little more about the Smart Beta concept.
IMG
Interview , April 2016
Pierre Richert : « It is important to enhance transparency, performance attribution and especially regulation for quant funds »
Pierre Richert, Agrica CFO – mutual company dedicated to the agriculture sector – still does not invest in quant funds. He considers necessary to enhance transparency, performance attribution and especially regulation for this kind of (...)
IMG
Interview , April 2016
Donald A. Steinbrugge : « A new CTA fund must have a strong differential advantage to have any chance of competing in the institutional market place. »
Donald A. Steinbrugge, managing partner at Agecroft Partners – US third party marketing firm specialized in hedge funds - gave us information regarding demand from institutional investors for CTAs
IMG
Interview , July 2015
Olivier Pleasant : "With Ecofi Enjeux Futurs, we want to invest in growth over the next decades"
According to Ecofi Investments "Meeting the actual needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" is the challenge of sustainable development, and the philosophy that we wanted to use when we set up this (...)
IMG
Interview , March 2015
Malik Haddouk : « In fixed income we are focusing in the short term on exposure to long maturities »
In fixed income, Malik Haddouk, Head of Balanced Management at CPR Asset Management and his team are focusing in the short term on exposure to long maturities (> 10 years), which are likely to get a boost from quantitative easing and weak (...)

Opinion

IMG
Opinion, December 2014
Extraordinary times… winners and losers in the oil game
We are living and investing in extraordinary times. Investors face a ‘perfect storm’ of risks which are correlating and affecting markets. The largest headlines are being generated by the movements in energy markets as Brent crude oil has fallen by 45% so far this year in US (...)
IMG
Opinion, December 2014
Indian interest rates may likely to fall soon
With disinflationary pressures building in India, it may only be a matter of time before interest rates start to fall materially.
IMG
Strategy, December 2014
Spread of dividends culture
Asian companies have changed in the last 10 years. Capital expenditure is more rational, and as a result cash generation compares favourably with companies in the US and Europe. This excess cash has been used to pay down debt to the extent that many companies have net cash (...)
IMG
Opinion, December 2014
When Smart Is Not That Smart
Can Beta Become Smarter? Nobel Prize-winning economist William Sharpe introduced the notions of “beta” and “alpha” decades ago. Put simply, Sharpe defined beta as a measure of a portfolio’s sensitivity relative to the market. Under this definition, it is difficult to fathom how (...)
IMG
Opinion, December 2014
Oil, caught in the cross-hairs of the currency war ?
According to Raphaël Gallardo, Strategist – Investment and client solutions at Natixis Asset Management, the fall in the oil price is attributable to a real phenomenon (the downward revision in global energy demand), but which he considers to be amplified by macro-financial (...)
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