Unigestion appoints Emanuele Ravano as Chairman of UNI-Global SICAV
Ravano will work closely with Unigestion’s senior management team and will be influential in mentoring and supporting Unigestion’s distribution initiatives. He is particularly well placed, given his previous experience, to support Unigestion’s accelerated distribution plans in (...)
Jupiter appoints Mitesh Patel as Assistant Fund Manager on Japan funds
Jupiter is pleased to announce the appointment of Mitesh Patel as Assistant Fund Manager, Japan Equities. Mitesh will join Jupiter on 3 October, supporting fund manager Dan Carter on the Jupiter Japan Income and Jupiter Japan Select SICAV (...)
Nomura Bolsters Economics Research with Senior Hire in the U.S.
Nomura announced that Mark Doms Ph.D. has joined the firm as a Managing Director and Senior Economist. Mr. Doms will be based in New York and will work closely with Lewis Alexander, Nomura’s Chief U.S. Economist.
Jupiter appoints Alejandro Arevalo to build emerging market debt strategy
Alejandro, who has more than 18 years’ experience of investing in emerging markets, will join Jupiter as a fund manager later this year from Pioneer Investments, where he has worked for four years as an emerging markets corporate debt portfolio (...)
Nomura appoints Wissam Farah as Head of Global Markets Sales, EMEA
Prior to joining Nomura, Mr.Farah was Head of Markets and Security Services for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at Citi, where he led a team responsible for marketing flow and structured products and solutions in rates, credit, FX, commodities, funds and equity (...)
New financing under the Investment Plan for Europe: Ginkgo 2
Building on its first vehicle, instigated by the Edmond de Rothschild Group in 2010, Ginkgo announces the first closing and launch of its second fund, Ginkgo 2, which targets the sustainable remediation of brownfield sites in urban (...)
State Street Global Advisors Launches 10 SPDR ETFs on the Euronext Exchange
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management arm of State Street Corporation, today announced that it has launched 10 World Sector SPDR Exchange Traded Funds on the Euronext Exchange.
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that it will publish a new index named the NOMURA FIG Index. The index is a weighted Index based on market value including accrued interest, consisting of bank bonds issued in (...)
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s (CalPERS) Board of Administration (Board) today laid out a path to review all of the System’s existing divestment initiatives, including tobacco. Based on directions given to CalPERS staff, the Board will consider (...)
Institutional investor appetite is back for quant funds
The recent CTA performances encourage institutional investors to more closely monitor this type of hedge fund. Thus, according to Preqin, 52% of them wish to increase their exposure to this type of alternative strategy this year (vs 14% last (...)