Salary & Bonus Determination of Salaries
How are salaries fixed? Are they controlled by companies? Or by the State? Perhaps they are controlled by syndicates? Or is it an obscure system controlled by hidden forces? Not at all. Long term, it?s a different (...)
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Opinion French alternative management: Towards a strong financial centre.
Following to their study on strenghts and weaknesses of France as an alternative management financial centre, Reinhold & Partners give us the main considerations for moving towards a strong financial center.
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Regulation Contractual OPCVM: a flexible and secure tool at the disposal of French asset managers
The french contractual OPCVM, in its configuration post october 2008 application decree, is a tool with features of interest for management companies, investors and service providers.
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News Nexar Capital Group, a global alternative investment manager, acquires Ermitage
Nexar Capital Group SCA announced yesterday the acquisition of Ermitage Limited, one of Europe’s pioneering alternative asset management organizations, from Caledonia Investments plc
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Regulation AMF renews the short selling ban on financial sector
The Board of the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) renews the ban on taking net short positions in French securities of the financial sector
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Note Islamic finance : 10 proposals to attract 100 billion Euros in savings !
The rise of Islamic finance is a fundamental trend and not a fad. It is part of a considerable market representing 700 billion dollars !
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Note Strengths and weaknesses of France as an alternative management financial centre
According to a study conducted by Reinhold & Partners, despite recognised human and technical resources, French alternative asset management, for reasons specific to the French market, and because it is suffering from a lack of image, has not developed as (...)
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News USD funding, money market freeze, pheripheral sovereign debt...answers from BNP Paribas
Amongst the three French banks under pressure, only BNP Paribas has played the card of full transparency ...
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News 2010 report on European asset management : specialists laugh, global players cry!
According to a study of Morningstar, the year 2010 has been a blank year for the European traditional industry of fund management with a strong outflow in the money market offset by inflows on risky assets ...
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News Crédit Agricole CIB to withdraw from equity derivatives and commodities activities.
The french bank unveils a new corporate and investment banking model centred on serving major clients and the closure of operations in 21 countries
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Stories Capital Fund Management: Simply the best?
Discus Fund, one of CFM flagship funds, posted 23 percent year-to-date positive returns as of october end, the best performance amongst all the global systematic funds. This is the confirmation the know-how of the French manager which has shown exceptional trackrecords for (...)
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Opinion Today’s European country in the sovereign debt crisis spotlight is…France
Russell Investments’ Chief Investment officer – Client Investment Strategies Erik Ristuben explains why the European sovereign debt crisis is spilling over into France
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Salary & Bonus Michel Camdessus issues his report on the traders’ bonuses
According to Michel Camdessus, the application of new standards and the action of bonuses supervisor have reduced 2009 bonus pool by 800 million euros ...
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Note Real estate: Attempting to explain the increase in prices.
The situation appears to be a paradox. France is just coming out of a crisis but real estate prices have sharply increased during the previous months and have only slightly decreased at the height of the crisis. How can this phenomenon be (...)
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People Moves Redundancy plan: Société Générale to join the party
The announcements of job cuts in investment banking continues. After a year fueled by rumors, Société Générale has officially announced the implementation of a voluntary departure plan for approximately 880 investment bankers (...)
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