January 2017
Strategy TNote-Bund correlation: new regime
2016 marked a watershed for the sovereign bond market. European bonds underwent a sharp selloff in Q4 2016, this when the year had kicked off on a bullish note that lasted right through to September. The political events in 2016, the outlook for growth and for inflation and (...)
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December 2016
Interview Total Return Derivatives: Can Repo Emerge as a New Asset Class?
According to Antoine Porcheret, Senior Equity & Derivative Strategist at BNP Paribas, Total Return Futures constitute a listed solution to mitigate concerns surrounding the envisaged introduction of bilateral margining for non-cleared OTC (...)
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December 2016
Pedagogy Eurex Exchange: Index Total Return Futures (TRF)
Index Total Return Futures (TRF) are designed to offer a listed solution for trading the implied equity repo rate. Index TRFs aim to replicate the payoff profile of an Index Total Return Swaps (TRS) in a cost efficient way. The first TRF product launch will be the EURO STOXX (...)
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December 2016
Pedagogy EURO STOXX 50® Total Return Futures
About Implied Repo Rate | Product Summary | Your Benefits Trading EURO STOXX 50® Total Return Futures | Product Structure | TRF Product Specifications | Motivation & Examples
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December 2016
Innovation Launch of the AAOIFI Shari’ah Standard on Gold, Developed in Collaboration With the World Gold Council
The Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) and the World Gold Council are delighted to announce the issuance of ’Shari’ah Standard No. 57 on Gold and its Trading Controls ("the (...)
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November 2016
Innovation GAM launches GAM Systematic Global Equity Market Neutral
The GAM Systematic Global Equity Market Neutral fund uses systematic strategies and proprietary trading systems to invest in global single-name equities. Designed to deliver returns uncorrelated with a long-only equity (...)
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October 2016
Pedagogy Using Risk Premia for a true diversified portfolio
For investors seeking meaningful diversification of their portfolios, alternative beta strategies (sometimes called liquid risk premia) have low or no market beta and, if executed correctly, have low correlations to the major asset (...)
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September 2016
Innovation Amundi launches a new generation of structured product
Amundi has launched a new fund aimed at investors seeking investment returns with the comfort of a permanent partial capital protection. This new generation of flexible and multiasset structured fund combines, active management to provide moderate growth while controlling (...)
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September 2016
Innovation Solactive launches European Quality Market Neutral Index
Solactive is announcing the launch of the Solactive European Quality Market Neutral Index licensed to Natixis. The index is to be used as an underlying for structured products issued by Natixis.
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September 2016
News Euronext announces volumes for August 2016
The August 2016 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €4,844 million (-43.8% compared to August 2015). Activity on ETFs followed the same trend with an average daily transaction value of €335 million, down by -54.9% compared to August (...)
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September 2016
News Global FX trading averages $5.1 trillion a day in April 2016; spot trading falls while FX swaps rise
The 2016 Triennial Central Bank Survey of foreign exchange (FX) and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets activity shows a decline in FX spot trading for the first time since 2001, even as activity in FX derivatives continued to (...)
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July 2016
Strategy Alternative risk premia weathering Brexit storm well
Pierre-Yves Moix, co-manager of the Alternative Risk Premia strategy at GAM, comments on how the growing alternative risk premia industry has delivered strong performance in the uncertain Brexit environment – proving once again its strong diversification and market neutral (...)
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July 2016
Strategy A Rising Tide Lifts Most Boats
The broad-based market upswing in the first half of July has benefitted risk assets globally. That follows the release of better than expected economic data in the US and China, suggesting that fears over the strength of the global recovery have been (...)
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July 2016
Opinion Brexit illustrates the diversification benefits of trend-following strategies
During the Brexit, the average CTA did very well: the SG Trend Index, a performance indicator for trend-following strategies, jumped 2.9% on 24 June. Trend-following strategies outperformed both equities, with the MSCI World Index dropping 4.9%, and hedge funds in general, (...)
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May 2016
News CTAs robust in moderately challenging environment
The first quarter of 2016 has seen the conjuncture of a significant rise in the Epsilon Correlation Index with a drop of the Epsilon Trend Index, confirming a moderately challenging environment for trend following strategies over the last 12 months. Those CTAs with the right (...)
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