Interview Michel Manteau : « We have mainly chosen minimum variance strategies because we seek to reduce the volatility of our equity portfolio »
Michel Manteau, head of portfolio management at CARMF (« Caisse Autonome de Retraite des Médecins de France »), the retirement institution for french doctors tells us more about Smart Beta strategies.
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Interview François Millet: « In some Dutch pension funds, ’Smart Beta’ indices exceed 40% of their core portfolio »
According to François Millet, Product Line Manager ETF & Indexing at Lyxor Asset Management, "Smart Beta" is intended to be located in the core portfolio of institutional investors, weighing generally between 10% and 40% of their passive (...)
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Interview Françoise Neige and Aurélie Jaclot : « a major cultural change encourages women to manage their own wealth »
Be a bank that is committed to women is the goal of Pictet, the Swiss bank, which has launched an offer of wealth management dedicated specifically to women.
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Interview François Lhabitant : «We have received dozens of proposals but only one long / short manager passed our selection ! »
Established in 2001, Kedge Capital manages the assets of the Bertarelli family. The company invests successfully nearly $ 6 billion in hedge funds, for a net return of 6.7% annually since its inception...
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Interview Baptiste Buisson : « We consider increasing the size of this type of investment (Absolute Performance UCITS) in the coming quarters »
According to Baptiste Buisson, Deputy Director at Aviva France, Investing in this type of support like Alternative Risk Premia allows players like Aviva France to diversify our investments.
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Interview Jean-Philippe Médecin : “Solvency II did not lead to a significant decline in our equity exposures”
Jean-Philippe Médecin, funding and asset-liability management director within the CNP Assurances investment department and its team are increasingly integrating hedges to limit the effects of market drawdowns…
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Interview Michèle Lacroix : “SCOR has strengthened its teams to invest more heavily in bank loans”
According to Michèle Lacroix, Head of Group Investment Office at SCOR, for several years, equity exposure has been strongly reduced in the group investment portfolio in contrast to its bank loan exposure...
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Interview Olivier Thébault and Mia Dassas : "Investing in a SPAC is risky"
Olivier Thébault, partner at Allen & Overy and Mia Dassas, counsel at Allen & Overy, explains how PSPCs work, their advantages and disadvantages and the strong attraction of investors for this type of vehicle (...)
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Interview Thaddée Tyl : « I would invest in an entrepreneurial management company rather than a fund owned by a large group!»
Thaddée Tyl, president of Rivoli Fund Management, is strongly advocating entrepreneurial management firms as they show more management team stability...
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Interview The Rise of TRFs – How Funds Use Them to Generate Alpha
Hedge funds and traditional institutional investors are increasingly turning to total return futures (TRFs) to get exposure to the repo market related to an underlying index such as the EURO STOXX 50® Index. Antoine Deix, Senior Equity Derivatives Strategist at BNP Paribas, (...)
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Interview Jad Comair : « We have much more interesting entry points to our dividend Futures strategies than those of our competitors in other asset classes »
Spin-off of the trading department of Société Générale, Jad Comair and his team have created Melanion Capital in order to provide investors with a new source of return on an innovative asset class , dividend Futures.
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Interview George Szemere : "Our investment process leads us to include 25-40 different risk premia in the portfolio"
According to George Szemere, Head of Global Strategic Relations & Liquid Alternatives, Columbia Threadneedle, there is a growing understanding that extracting returns from a traditional asset-allocation mix is going to be (...)
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Interview Elie Ayache : « The trading of derivatives products has nothing to do with the probability distributions»
He was among the first volatility traders in the matif ! ITO33 Founder and former head of research at Dexia AM, Elie Ayache gives us his thoughts on the derivatives markets he defines as the technology...
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Interview Carole Zacchéo : “The war will strengthen the interest of investors and savers for the ESG theme”
According to Carole Zacchéo, CIO at Maif group, the french mutual insurance, an investor committed to an ambitious climate strategy, investments in favor of energy transition will increase, both in terms of energy efficiency and renewable energy (...)
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Interview Benoit Mandelbrot: «My ideas are more and more used by trading desks »
Benoit Mandelbrot, former student of Ecole Polytechnique, is a member of the research center of IBM. He also teaches at Yale and is the father of fractal mathematics ...
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