CPR Asset Management launches “Social Impact” fund dedicated to tackling inequalities
CPR Asset Management, the thematic equities arm of the largest European asset manager Amundi, has launched a fund dedicated to tackling social inequalities, adding to CPR AM’s €10 billion thematic equities range.
Lyxor expands Fixed Income range with sustainable exposure High Yield bond ETFs
Lyxor is launching three new ETFs built to provide a more sustainable exposure to High Yield bonds. The three ETFs – covering USD High Yield, EUR High Yield, and Global High Yield – use Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Sustainable SRI indices, which apply sustainability filters to the (...)
MSCI launches solution enabling investors to assess exposure to climate risk
MSCI Inc., a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, has today launched a solution to help investors assess their exposure to climate related risks and (...)
Solactive starts the new decade with innovative research-driven indices – Introducing the Solactive Future Trends Index Series
Solactive kicks off 2020 with the release of a new major index family, concerning significant socio-economic trends set to shape society’s future way of life. The Solactive Future Trends Index Series offers a range of new index concepts in the field of megatrends and thematic (...)
Muzinich & Co announces first close of European Senior Secured Private Debt Fund
The Fund focuses on providing growth financing solutions for European middle-market companies and explicitly incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations and monitoring into the investment (...)
The performance of CTAs during the recent market meltdown is remarkable. It highlights the fact that the power of diversification of the strategy in a portfolio remains intact. Recent developments provide additional evidence that managed futures often outperform traditional (...)
European Smart beta ETF market flows were sustained in 2015 but were still impacted by Q2 trend inflection. NET NEW ASSETS (NNA) for the full year 2015 amounted to EUR4.1bn, close to the EUR4.4 record level of 2014 (...)
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was he Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was he Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up+0.7% in November November. 4 out of 11 Lyxor Indices ended the month in positive territory. The Lyxor CTA Long Term Index (+3.6%), the Lyxor Global Macro Index (+1.8%), and the (...)
The Seeyond Europe MinVariance fund celebrates its fifth anniversary and reaches its twofold management objective: performance and reduction in volatility
Five years after its inception, and in a market environment marked by numerous changes in volatility regimes, the Seeyond Europe MinVariance fund posts a cumulative performance over five years of more than 66%..
CalPERS’ Active Private Equity Funds Generated $24.2 Billion in Net Gains for the Fund; Releases Profit Shared with Investment Partners
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today announced that active funds in its private equity program have added $24.2 billion in realized net gains to the Fund from 1990 to June 30, 2015, based on data from its newly operational Private Equity (...)