Philippe Desfossés : « Our SRI approach has two advantages, the absence of sectorial bias and investment in all sectors »
Philip Desfossés, Director of ERAFP (Establishment of additional retirement of civil servants), the first French public pension funds, introduces their 100% SRI management and their Best In Class approach ...
Arnaud Chrétien and Serge Darolles : «The objective of QuantValley is to become the calling card for French Quantitive management»
Challenges, positioning and quantative management outlook in France. Arnaud Chrétien and Serge Darolles, respectively Chairman and deputy chairman of QuantValley, answer our questions and introduce us to their project aimed at promoting Paris’ image as a city of (...)
Bruno Le Chevallier : « We have got rid of all banking stocks and have expanded sales to insurers »
According to CCR Opportunity Fund manager, Bruno Le Chevallier, an optimistic scenario can lead markets to bounce back by about 10% to 15% by the end of the year.
Christophe Dehondt : « Current levels of inflation break-even are buying opportunities »
According to Christophe Dehondt, fund manager of CPR Focus Inflation, it is possible to benefit from the rise in inflation while being hedged against rising interest rates by buying inflation-linked bonds and selling traditional sovereign bonds with similar (...)
Jürgen Maier: «Emerging Markets will continue to become more and more important for the global economy and capital markets »
According to Jürgen Maier, fund manager in the team «Emerging Markets Equities» at Raiffeisen Capital Management, Emerging Markets have weathered the economic crisis and will remain competitive thanks to massive investments in infrastructure in the years to come and enormous (...)
Our central scenario is that of a strong economic recovery rather than that of overheating!
Within its equity allocation, CPR Asset Management has accentuated its bias in favor of value and cyclical assets, for example via global Value ETFs, lines on European markets, in the banking sector, energy or ETFs on commodities (...)
What is your expectation on how central banks will act on interest rates at their upcoming meetings?
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) and European Central Bank (ECB) are in different positions, where the Fed has eased back on its stimulus while the ECB has kept its purchase programmes going.
Italian government includes EU taxonomy mitigation criteria in green bond framework
The Italian government has issued its inaugural green bond; issue size EUR 8.5 billion. Italy made efforts to align its green bond categories to the EU Taxonomy in terms of mitigation objective criteria. NN IP believes this is an important milestone for the green bond market (...)
After a rollercoaster 2020 for European high yield markets, 2021 looks set to be more stable. Fears of high levels of corporate defaults have proved unjustified, allowing high yield to rebound in 2020 and setting the scene for the coming (...)
The implementation of ESG in portfolios and the evolution of ESG reporting
We continue this series with Tomas Hildebrandt, Senior Portfolio Manager at Evli, and Janne Kujala, Head of Nordic Equity, to discuss implementation of responsible investments across funds and investment spaces.