Solactive and Candriam team up to launch the Factors Sustainable Index Family
Solactive and Candriam have joined forces to launch the Solactive Candriam Factors Sustainable Index Family offering exposure to companies with sustainable and responsible investing criteria as determined by Candriam’s SRI screening (...)
Swiss Life Asset Managers Focuses on European retail and launches a new real estate Fund dedicated to institutional investors
Swiss Life Asset Managers, Real Estate rounds out its offer for institutional investors with the launch of SL REF (Lux) European Retail SCS, SICAV-RAIF, a new Fund focusing on European retail.
Solactive launches Australian Bank Senior Floating Rate Bond Index
Solactive AG is pleased to announce it has entered for the first time the Asia-Pacific region with a new index in the fixed-income space, the Solactive Australian Bank Senior Floating Rate Bond Index, aimed to be tracked by the BetaShares Australian Bank Senior Floating Rate (...)
Amundi brings investors a focus on US mid cap equities with Amundi Funds Wells Fargo US Mid Cap
Amundi offers investors exposure to US domestic growth potential with Amundi Funds Wells Fargo US Mid Cap, a sub-fund of its Luxembourg flagship SICAV. This sub-fund, formerly Amundi Funds Equity US Concentrated Core, aims to achieve long-term capital growth, and (...)
Solactive and Panthera Solutions launch Solactive Panthera World Market Portfolio Index
Solactive and Panthera Solutions are launching the Solactive Panthera World Market Portfolio Index. This index seeks to replicate the global market portfolio as measured by Monaco-based asset allocation consultancy Panthera Solutions through a multi-asset indexing (...)
The first quarter of 2016 has seen the conjuncture of a significant rise in the Epsilon Correlation Index with a drop of the Epsilon Trend Index, confirming a moderately challenging environment for trend following strategies over the last 12 months. Those CTAs with the right (...)
According to BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research report inflows into Investment Grade (IG) funds have slowed down over the past weeks. Is this temporary or more the result of declining yields making high-quality credit unappetizing (...)
Unigestion continues to make headway in the Canadian market, announcing today the addition of Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) as a new client.
Monthly European ETF Market Trends - April 2016 in brief
European ETF Market flows were relatively limited in April 2016. NET NEW ASSETS (NNA) during the month amounted to EUR2.3bn. Year to date NNA amount to EUR8bn, representing only a quarter of what was collected in the four first months of (...)
Hedge funds’ returns weakened in sympathy with last week’s retreat in risky assets. Losses were mild in general, with few notable underperformers. By contrast, CTAs outperformed, recouping their earlier losses as yields and oil weakened. Funds keeping a low beta also performed (...)