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April 4

News Ellipsis Asset Management acquires the convertible bond business of Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management

Ellipsis Asset Management, a subsidiary of the Kepler Cheuvreux group and a European leader in convertible management, announces the acquisition of the convertible bond management business of Edmond de Rothschild Asset (...)

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AllianzGI with over EUR 50 billion AuM in infrastructure

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Schroders Greencoat builds on renewable energy demand with launch of semi-liquid energy transition fund

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November 2015

News CNP Assurances and Meridiam help finance the energy transition by launching Meridiam Transition

CNP Assurances, the leading personal insurer in France, operating in Europe and Latin America and the project organiser, along with management company Meridiam, announces the launch of the Meridiam Transition fund.

November 2015

News CalPERS Adopts Funding Risk Mitigation Policy to Rein in Risk and Volatility in Pension System

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today adopted a funding risk mitigation policy that will incrementally lower the discount rate in years of good investment returns, help pay down the pension fund’s unfunded liability, and provide greater (...)

November 2015

News The wheel turned in favor of directional strategies

The Lyxor he Lyxor he LyxorHedge Fund Index was Hedge Fund Index was Hedge Fund Index was up+1.1% in October October October. 8 out of 11 Lyxor Indices ended the month in positive territory. The Lyxor LS Equity Long Bias Index (+4.5%), the Lyxor Special Situations Index (...)

November 2015

News Fitch: Global Credit Growth Prospects Remain Stable; Downside Risks for Emerging Markets

Fitch Ratings says in its latest Macro-Prudential Monitor that global credit growth is not likely to have a strong pick-up in 2015. Hence, macro-prudential risk indicators (MPI) could continue to trend lower with the highest risks still largely confined to emerging markets (...)

November 2015

News So much for pari passu as senior bondholders get dragged into Greek bank recapitalization

By hook or by crook, senior bondholders are in line to help plug the €14.4 billion capital gap that the ECB’s asset quality review and stress test revealed in Greek banks’ balance sheets.

November 2015

News SNL Financial: The Nordic revenue warning for Europe’s banks

In recent reporting seasons, disappointment would have been unthinkable; reliability was the Nordic banks’ stock in trade. Yet the third-quarter 2015 revenue and income figures from the biggest Swedish lenders simply look (...)

November 2015

News Asset quality on the mend in Portugal, despite political uncertainty

After a long period of decay, asset quality is improving at Portugal’s banks — and political uncertainty seems unlikely to interrupt the trend.

November 2015

News The GX Private Equity IndexSM (PEI) saw an overall return of 4.2 percent

State Street’s GX Private Equity Index Shows Fund Distributions Continue to Outpace Capital Drawdowns, Driving the Quarterly Return to 4.2% in the Second Quarter of 2015...

November 2015

News AfDB issues 0.75% US$ 1 billion global benchmark due 3 November 2017

On Tuesday, October 27, 2015, the African Development Bank (AfDB) successfully launched and priced a new 1 billion 2-year US dollar global benchmark due November 3, 2017. This is the AfDB’s second US dollar global benchmark of the year following a successful 5-year benchmark (...)

November 2015

News Lyxor to reach 50% physical ETF assets

Lyxor is to switch key European, Global and US ETFs to physical replication, in a drive to continuously improve the quality of replication for investors. Following the switch, Lyxor will have more than half of its assets (€25bn) in physical replication, making it the third (...)

November 2015

News Higher interest rates not a panacea for bank profitability according to SNL’s 2015 U.S. Bank and Thrift Market Report

New research on the US bank and thrift sector from SNL indicates that profitability in the industry will improve but not reach pre-crisis levels. The inaugural edition of SNL’s 2015 U.S.

October 2015

News CalPERS Board Adopts Decision that Former Loomis Fire Chief Violated Pension Law

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration (Board) adopted an administrative law judge’s decision that found former Loomis Fire District’s Fire Chief, David Wheeler, to have knowingly violated the retirement law, and ordered him and the (...)

October 2015

News Greater Manchester Pension Fund and LPFA infrastructure programme makes first investment

Greater Manchester & London Infrastructure Limited (GLIL), a £500m infrastructure investment joint venture between Greater Manchester Pensions Fund and the London Pensions Fund Authority, has committed £60m towards funding the construction and operation of British (...)

October 2015

News UBS continues its reign on top as the largest private bank in Asia Pacific

Private Banker International announced the 2015 PBI Top 20 Asia-Pacific Rankings at the Private Banker International Global Wealth Summit 2015. This year’s survey showed a continued rise in Asian wealth and reveals UBS as the largest private bank by AUM in the region, for the (...)

October 2015

News Montupet’s Board of Directors supports Linamar’s draft tender offer

The Board of Directors of Montupet met on October 14, 2015 to review the terms and conditions of the draft Voluntary Cash Tender Offer. Linamar intends to file for 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of the Company at €71.53 per (...)

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News Julius Baer to acquire Merrill Lynch’s International Wealth Management business outside the United States from Bank of America

BofAML will provide certain products and services to Julius Baer, including the provision of global equity research, product offerings, as well as structured and advisory products. In addition there will be cross-referral of clients between both (...)

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News BlackRock Agrees to Acquire Global Infrastructure Partners (“GIP”), Creating a World Leading Infrastructure Private Markets Investment Platform

GIP is the world’s largest independent infrastructure manager with over $100 billion in AUM and a strong reputation for driving operational improvements in its portfolio companies & proprietary origination

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News Agence France Trésor announced the successful launch of the first French sovereign green bond

Today, Agence France Trésor announced the successful launch of the first French sovereign green bond with a maturity of 22 years. The Green OAT 1.75% 25 June 2039 issuance amount was €7bn, making it the largest and longest-dated green bond ever (...)

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News Long Short Credit resilience defies investors’concerns

Since early December, Merger Arbitrage and L/S Equity Market Neutral has outperformed, while L/S Equity remains under pressure. Relative Value Arbitrage was resilient. Based on a peer group of 28 onshore L/S Credit strategies, the median performance was -0.3% month-to-date (...)

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News Swiss Re to create new fund for institutional and designated professional investors to access natural catastrophe business

Swiss Re subsidiary Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Management Ltd (SRILIM) has received authorisation from FINMA to act as an asset manager for investment funds

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News Sfil Group’s 1st issue in US dollar of the year

With this transaction on a 5-year maturity, Sfil extends its dollar reference curve by a further 2 years and contributes to diversifying its medium- to long-term financing sources after 2 euro transactions launched during the 1st half at 5 and 7 (...)

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News Spanish banks’ secular lending contraction coming to an end

Loans by Spanish banks may start growing again, says Scope Ratings, after several years of contraction. But the rating agency expects volume growth to remain moderate for the foreseeable future.

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News Solactive Launches PAB High-Yield (Y) Indices and Enlarges Paris-Aligned Index Family

Investors have been increasingly considering aligning investment decisions with ESG values. In 2021, this focus increased as the entire world watched heads of states’ debates on effective actions against climate change at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, (...)

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News Luxcara has acquired the solar project Guillena-Salteras located in southern Spain.

The plant will have a projected capacity of approximately 121 MWp. Construction works will begin shortly. The facility is expected to be connected to the grid in Q2/2020. Like project El Salobral, which Luxcara acquired in December 2017, Guillena-Salteras will sell the (...)

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News Event-driven takes asummer break

For the first time since October 2016, the monthly performance of Event-Driven funds was in negative territory. The strategy remains nonetheless the stellar performer in 2017, up 5.7% year to date according to the Lyxor Event Driven Broad (...)

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News Swiss Re Capital Markets structures and places the first parametric earthquake catastrophe bond to hedge mortgage risk caused by earthquakes for Bayview

Swiss Re Capital Markets successfully closed the USD 225 million Series 2020-1 Principal At-Risk Variable Rate Notes transaction issued by Sierra Ltd. on behalf of Bayview’s MSR Opportunity Fund ("Bayview").

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News Emerging market green bond issuance hits $52 billion in 2019 and can help weather shocks, Amundi and the IFC reveal in new report

Need for green investments is crucial: current pandemic shows responsible investors in emerging markets can collaborate with issuers through green bonds to unlock long-term capital and help issuers become more resilient for shocks to (...)

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News Euronext expands listed private placement bonds offer

Euronext, the primary exchange in the euro zone, today announced the launch of Euronext Private Placement Bonds (EPPB). A pan-European initiative, this new product rounds out Euronext’s existing private placement bond range by extending it to (...)

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News Nomura Leads First Green Bond Offering by NTT Finance

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that it has priced a three-year Green Bond issue valued at 40 billion yen for NTT Finance Corporation. Nomura acted as bookrunner and green bond structuring agent for the (...)

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News Norges Bank has decided to revoke the exclusion of one company, and end observation of a company.

The Executive Board of Norges Bank has decided to revoke the exclusion of Thoresen Thai Agencies PCL. The company has been excluded since 2018 due to its practice of sending decommissioned vessels to be broken up for scrap in Bangladesh, where working conditions are (...)

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News 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 (...)

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