State Street Global Advisors Launches Four Advanced Beta Equity ETFs
State Street Global Advisors, the asset management arm of State Street Corporation, announced the launch of four advanced beta equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The SPDR MSCI Europe Value Weighted UCITS ETF, SPDR MSCI USA Value Weighted UCITS ETF, SPDR MSCI Europe Small (...)
Lyxor expands its Active Smart Beta offering to Fixed Income
Lyxor Asset Management continues to develop its Active Smart Beta offering with the launch of a new commingled bond product, the Lyxor EuroGovies Risk-Balanced Fund, a UCITS IV-fund, available for investors in various European (...)
Nomura Asset Management launches new bond fund to provide exposure to full range of global fixed income opportunities
Nomura Asset Management U.K. Ltd. (NAM) has launched the Global Dynamic Bond Fund, designed to provide investors with a more diversified approach to fixed income investing. Unconstrained by benchmark allocations, the fund seeks to generate attractive total returns by (...)
Lyxor launches currency-hedged ETF share class on JPX-Nikkei 400, the new benchmark for Japanese equities
Lyxor announces the launch of the first currency hedged ETF share class tracking the JPX-Nikkei 400 index, the LYXOR UCITS ETF JPX-Nikkei 400 Daily Hedged C-EUR, listed today on Euronext Paris.
Source and Goldman Sachs expand range of innovative Equity Factor ETF
Source is pleased to announce the launch of the Source Goldman Sachs Equity Factor Index Europe UCITS ETF. This is the second Source ETF to be launched that provides access to Goldman Sachs’ innovative series of multi-factor indices, following the success of the Source (...)
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index gained 0.2% in September (+2.2% in 2012). 11 Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 14 ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor Event Driven - Special Situations Index (+2.2%) and the Lyxor L/S Equity – Long Bias Index (...)
Fixed-income instruments exhibited significant performance across all risk classes: worldwide and US high-grade (1.01% and 0.93% respectively), convertibles (0.95%), and the credit-spread index (0.66%)…
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 (...)
What about performances of active management versus passive management ? According to a study released by Olivier Scaillet and Gilles Criton, nearly 20% of alternative fund managers beat the market, against only 0,6% of traditional (...)
John Paulson has lost nearly $ 500 million betting on Sino-Forest
Paulson & co and many other fund management companies have been caught by the markets after the revelations about Sino-Forest real wealth. Is it a lesson taught to the funds invested in shares of companies expected to capture growth in emerging markets (...)