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Innovation

IMG
Innovation, September 2015
Amundi launches innovative buyback-themed ETF, the first to track the MSCI Europe Weighed Buyback Yield index
Amundi ETF announces the launch of the first ETF in Europe leveraging the theme of European share buybacks, by tracking the MSCI Europe Equal Weighted Buyback Yield strategy index. The launch represents another innovative expansion of Amundi ETF’s European equity Smart Beta (...)
IMG
Innovation, August 2015
S&P 500 Catholic Values Index Launched by S&P Dow Jones Indices
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI), one of the world’s leading providers of financial market indices, announced the launch of the S&P 500® Catholic Values Index which is designed to include the companies within the S&P 500 whose business practices adhere to the (...)
IMG
Innovation, August 2015
LOIM launches ILS offering and hires CAT bond team.
Dr Gregor Gawron to head Insurance Linked Strategies Offering meets the need for low correlated building blocks for diversified portfolios.
IMG
Innovation, August 2015
Nomura Asset Management to launch JPX-Nikkei 400 ETFs
Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd., announced a plan to launch three new exchange traded funds (ETFs) designed to track the performance of the JPX-Nikkei 400 Leveraged (2x) Index, JPX-Nikkei 400 Inverse (-1x) Index and JPX-Nikkei 400 Double Inverse (-2x) (...)
IMG
Innovation, July 2015
Lyxor launches an innovative range of risk factor ETFs
Following the announcement of the partnership between Lyxor and J.P. Morgan, Lyxor listed on Xetra on the 10th July 2015 five ETFs designed to capture the low size, value, quality, low beta and momentum factors respectively within the European equity (...)

Performances

IMG
News, April 2020
Mixed outlook for L/S Equity Neutral and Short-Selling
Lyxor’s L/S Equity Neutral peer group was down -2.8% year-to-date, hurt by extreme trading conditions and the constituents’ average market beta of 20%. The environment has been challenging for the strategy amid extreme stock volatility and unsettling heavy systematic trading (...)
IMG
Strategy, April 2020
CTAs as shock absorbers
In the space of alternative strategies, Global Macro and Event-Driven strategies rebounded the most since March 23rd. Both Merger Arbitrage and Special Situations sub strategies benefitted as M&A deal spreads tightened significantly since (...)
IMG
Note, January 2020
ESMA report values EU Alternative Investment Funds at €5.8 trillion
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) today published its second statistical report on European Union (EU) Alternative Investment Funds (AIF). The study found that the EU AIF sector in 2018, as measured by Net Asset Value (NAV), amounted to €5.8tn or nearly 40% (...)
IMG
News, December 2019
BlackRock achieves a $1 billion record first close for its third-vintage global renewables fund
BlackRock Real Assets has achieved a US$1 billion first close for its Global Renewable Power III fund (“GRP III,”) with commitments from over 35 institutional investors in North America, Europe and Asia.
IMG
News, October 2019
Momentum is back but for how long?
Going forward, our stance remains defensive on equities, in particular on European, Japanese and EM markets (UW). In the space of alternative strategies, we prefer Market Neutral L/S vs. Directional L/S, despite the fact that the latter has adopted a cautious stance in (...)
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