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March 2020

Pedagogy Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) to Trigger Pandemic Bonds

The current Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak will likely trigger payouts for $132.5 million in pandemic catastrophe bonds sponsored by the World Bank Group’s (WBG) Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF). This funding will be channelled to eligible countries to (...)

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December 2017

Pedagogy Eurex Market-on-Close Futures

Eurex Market-on-Close Futures (Eurex MOC Futures) are designed to significantly facilitate MOC trading since the index futures can be traded at the underlying cash market index close ahead of its actual publication.

November 2017

Pedagogy Chinese Stocks in Focus

China’s stock market is one of the surprises of 2017. In early March developed market equities reached their highest point in euro terms but slipped thereafter, while stocks from emerging countries, especially from China, have continued to grow at a (...)

September 2017

Pedagogy MBS: Size, Depth & Liquidity

With a low volatility profile and steady yield, returns from mortgage-backed securities beat other medium and high-quality fixed income securities over time. The market has had a radical reform since it took a hit during the financial crisis; those who seek a truly (...)

December 2016

Pedagogy Eurex Exchange: Index Total Return Futures (TRF)

Index Total Return Futures (TRF) are designed to offer a listed solution for trading the implied equity repo rate. Index TRFs aim to replicate the payoff profile of an Index Total Return Swaps (TRS) in a cost efficient way. The first TRF product launch will be the EURO STOXX (...)

December 2016

Pedagogy EURO STOXX 50® Total Return Futures

About Implied Repo Rate | Product Summary | Your Benefits Trading EURO STOXX 50® Total Return Futures | Product Structure | TRF Product Specifications | Motivation & Examples

October 2016

Pedagogy Using Risk Premia for a true diversified portfolio

For investors seeking meaningful diversification of their portfolios, alternative beta strategies (sometimes called liquid risk premia) have low or no market beta and, if executed correctly, have low correlations to the major asset (...)

April 2016

Pedagogy Performance fee impact

These fees are far from being insignificant for investor returns. According to Duncan Wilkinson, CEO of Alpha Simplex, more and more hedge fund managers, especially in the United States, have decided to offer products without any performance fees; a trend that should (...)

January 2015

Pedagogy Invest in domestic chinese stocks with ETFS-E Fund MSCI China A GO UCITS

In May 2014, ETF Securities partnered with E Fund, one of the largest asset managers in China, to launch a physical exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks physical A-shares listed in China. It is the first UCITS ETF to track the MSCI China A (...)

October 2014

Pedagogy Infrastructure : A Growing asset class

Even if infrastructure investments shares some of the characteristics with fixed income (long term predictable yield), real estate (investing in physical assets) and private equity (leverage is used), its popularity is increasing among (...)

February 2014

Pedagogy Amundi Funds Absolute Global Dividend aim for 150 to 200M€ in managed assets over a period of 12 months

According to Warin Buntrock, fund manager of Amundi Funds Absolute Global Dividend in BFT Gestion, the investors feedback is encouraging. As proof, the fund, launched on 15th April 2013, is today 65 million worth in assets under (...)

February 2014

Pedagogy What is a dividend "future"?

A dividend future is a forward contract traded on an organized market, allowing taking a position on the amount of dividends paid by a publicly traded company to its shareholders for a specific maturity date. It is not necessary to hold shares in the company to intervene in (...)

April 2013

Pedagogy BNP Paribas L1 Equity World Low Volatility

The Fund BNP Paribas L1 Equity World Low Volatility seeks to outperform the MSCI World Index over a full market cycle with risk reduction objective and limiting tracking error risk level. Absolute volatility is targeted to be lower than the MSCI World (...)

September 2012

Pedagogy New milestones achieved in Eurex’s futures on French government bonds

Eurex Exchange has recently set several new records in its Euro-OAT Futures. In August 2012, open interest exceeded for the first time the 100,000 threshold with 104,869 contracts. Trading volume in July also set a new record, both in average daily volume with about 19,600 (...)

February 2012

Pedagogy Variable Annuities : the future of Life Insurance ?

As products at the forefront of finance and Insurance which propose a number of types of guarantees and multiple options corresponding, in theory, to the essential needs of clients (availability of funds, profitability, security), Variable Annuity stands to become the new (...)

November 2011

Pedagogy How to develop a quantitative model for stock picking ?

Cyrille Collet, Christian Lopez and Alexander Decoene from CPR AM show us how to make static combinations of factors to create a model for stock picking on a given universe ...

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Pedagogy EURO STOXX 50® Total Return Futures

About Implied Repo Rate | Product Summary | Your Benefits Trading EURO STOXX 50® Total Return Futures | Product Structure | TRF Product Specifications | Motivation & Examples

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Pedagogy Sovereign Wealth Funds

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are state-owned or affiliated funds. The first type (by far the biggest) invests foreign exchange reserves, driven by trade surpluses and exports of natural resources.

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Pedagogy « Catastrophe bonds » or CAT bonds

Insurance companies issue this type of bonds to cover the risks associated with "disastrous" events such as earthquakes, typhoons, storms and hurricanes...

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Pedagogy Credit Default Swaps (CDS).

Politicians have, in general, a very rough knowledge on financial products, especially credit derivatives. In some cases, this may be a gap. Indeed, the icelandic prime minister is now aware of it...

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Pedagogy Performance fee impact

These fees are far from being insignificant for investor returns. According to Duncan Wilkinson, CEO of Alpha Simplex, more and more hedge fund managers, especially in the United States, have decided to offer products without any performance fees; a trend that should (...)

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Pedagogy Chinese Stocks in Focus

China’s stock market is one of the surprises of 2017. In early March developed market equities reached their highest point in euro terms but slipped thereafter, while stocks from emerging countries, especially from China, have continued to grow at a (...)

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Pedagogy Back to the future, may 2011: Nobles Crus and Earth Element Fund

Yesterday they were introduced as innovatives products. Today, How far have they got and what are the prospects for tomorrow ? Two products in the spotlight this month: Nobles Crus or the blend of passion for wine and financial investment, and a quantitative systematic (...)

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Pedagogy TARN on REVERSE CMS

A major U.S bank has recently issued Target Accrual Redemption Note (TARN) on reverse CMS (Constant Maturity Swap). This product pays a coupon indexed on a reverse, capped and floored CMS until the sum of coupon payments reach a target (...)

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Pedagogy Private equity

Private equity funds invest in companies equities in order to take control of them. The shares held by these funds are not traded on financial markets. Their influence is moderate : According to Bain & Company, the global assets they hold is up to 3% of the value of (...)

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Pedagogy Eurex Market-on-Close Futures

Eurex Market-on-Close Futures (Eurex MOC Futures) are designed to significantly facilitate MOC trading since the index futures can be traded at the underlying cash market index close ahead of its actual publication.

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Pedagogy Inflation linked bonds’ mechanism

Inflation linked bonds are bonds whose principal is linked to inflation which allows their holders to protected against inflation as opposed to traditional bonds.

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Pedagogy Infrastructure : A Growing asset class

Even if infrastructure investments shares some of the characteristics with fixed income (long term predictable yield), real estate (investing in physical assets) and private equity (leverage is used), its popularity is increasing among (...)

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Pedagogy Eurex Exchange: Index Total Return Futures (TRF)

Index Total Return Futures (TRF) are designed to offer a listed solution for trading the implied equity repo rate. Index TRFs aim to replicate the payoff profile of an Index Total Return Swaps (TRS) in a cost efficient way. The first TRF product launch will be the EURO STOXX (...)

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Pedagogy What is Long/Short Equity ?

Hedge funds apply a vast array of investment strategies which can be more or less complex. In this article, we shall focus on the Long / Short strategy…

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Pedagogy Rotating Mountain Range Options

A major European investment bank has recently launched a long-term hybrid investment vehicle: "Rotating Mountain Range". This product pays a coupon equal to the weighted sum of the performances of three assets, where the weights are adjusted after each observation (...)

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Pedagogy iSTOXX™ Europe Minimum Variance

The approach initiated by Ossiam’s research and management team intends to obtain an optimized portfolio that includes a selection of stocks where volatility is among the lowest in the investment universe

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Managed Accounts

Managed Accounts : Comprendre le fonctionnement d’une plateforme | Avantages pour l’investisseur institutionnel ? Pour le gérant de « hedge fund » ? | Description du processus de sélection d’une société de gestion sur la plateforme | La plateforme de comptes gérés (...)

Les Derivés Total Return

Les Derivés Total Return : Est-ce que le marché du repo peut émerger comme nouvelle classe d’actifs ? | Indices Total Return Futures (TRF) cotés sur Eurex Exchange : Une solution pour négocier un taux de repo action implicite sur un marché organisé via un EURO STOXX 50 Index Total (...)

Contrats à terme Market-on-close sur Eurex

Contrats à terme Market-on-close sur Eurex : Un avantage pour le marché : une solution listée pour négocier la base | Champs d’application | Principaux avantages | Réduction des coûts de transaction

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Note What is Structured Finance ?

If the current crisis (labelled as the subprime crisis) has highlighted the complexity of structured finance along with the necessity of developing more sophisticated risk management tools, it appears that a great deal of misunderstanding still prevails among economic and (...)

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