Chiefly invested in Euro bonds supplied by private issuers rated “Investment Grade1“ with maturity 1-3 years, Natixis’s FCP Crédit Euro 1-3 fund targets a performance +0.30% above the Barclays Capital Euro Aggregate Corporate Credit 1-3 index over a recommended investment period (...)
Skandia Investment Group (SIG) launches UCITS managed futures fund
SIG has chosen to partner with London based Aspect Capital and is seeking the sort of returns generated by Aspect’s Diversified Programme – the Company’s flagship investment strategy which caters primarily to large sophisticated institutional investors and has a 12 year plus (...)
Sparinvest believes that, as a result of the Euro crisis, small companies based in Europe have been indiscriminately priced down and now offer a rich hunting ground for bargain hunters
The Government Pension Fund Global returned 3.3 percent, or 192 billion kroner, in the second quarter of 2014
Equity investments returned 4.0 percent, and fixed-income investments 2.0 percent. The return on these investments was 0.1 percentage point lower than the return on the benchmark indices. Investments in real estate returned 3.0 (...)
ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe gathered record 10.6 billion US dollars in net new assets in July 2014 and record 42.7 billion YTD
ETFGI’s analysis finds ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe gathered a record level of US$10.6 Bn in net new assets in July, pushing YTD NNA to US$42.7 Bn, a new record level of NNA at this point in the year, outpacing the previous high of US$30.1 Bn set in (...)
Lyxor pursues its growth momentum in H1 2014 supported by its ETF and Alternative businesses
Lyxor Asset Management has continued its growth momentum, recording a 7% increase in AuM since the end of 2013 thus reaching EUR 86bn of assets under management.
CalPERS Reports Preliminary 2013-14 Fiscal Year Performance of 18.4 Percent
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) reported a preliminary 18.4 percent return on investments for the 12 months that ended June 30, 2014. CalPERS assets at the end of the fiscal year stood at more than $300 (...)
Robeco BP Global Premium Equities wins record ninth Morningstar award
Robeco, a leading international asset manager based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is pleased to announce that Morningstar has named Robeco Boston Partners Global Premium Equities fund as the best of its class in a record nine European (...)