Research
All research papers related to asset management
Quant Note
Note,
January 2012
Major innovations in weighting methodologies for equity and bond indices
According to Christian Lopez, Head of Research at CPR-AM, the four largest families of alternative indices are low volatility/minimum variance, equally-weighted, indices weighted by micro or macro fundamentals and maximum diversification (...)
Note,
November 2011
How can funds with past sustainable returns collapse in a few months?
Are these abrupt changes only an indication of the risks of the market, or is it investment behaviour which favours the occurance of these extreme risks ? These are the question tackled in the last « White Paper » of (...)
Note,
October 2011
Estimating the Real Rate of Return on Stock Index
Judicious use of the rate of return framework on equity, or "cost of capital" facilitates decision-making within the financial industry by providing a metric for comparing different stock markets between them but also a comparison to other asset (...)
Strategy,
October 2011
Management of hedge fund portfolios during crisis periods: the contribution of systematic overlays
The implementation of systematic overlays can be considered as an alternative to short-term rebalancing of hedge fund portfolios, or as an active component of alternative allocations.
Opinion,
May 2011
Mathematical models in finance and embedded risk underestimation
The statistical assumption of normal (log-normal) distribution of stock returns (prices) is not that strong and tail events’ occurrence is largely undervalued. Nevertheless, this modeling framework has been widely used for strong (...)
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Study
News,
August 2017
Moody’s: European asset management firms increased total assets in 2016; advisory fees fell
While stronger US and European equity markets helped European asset management firms to increase their assets under management (AUM) in 2016, they were unable to prevent a decline in advisory fee revenues, Moody’s Investors Service said in a (...)
Note,
August 2017
Private Capital Fund Managers Raise Fee Rates in 2017
The 2017 Preqin Private Capital Fund Terms Advisor finds that several private capital fund types are raising their average management fees among funds of more recent vintages. Unlisted infrastructure funds have seen mean management fees rise marginally from lows of 1.38% for (...)
Note,
July 2017
Global acquirers significantly underperform World Index in the second quarter
Europe M&A activity bucks trend as market volatility and economic uncertainty depress performance in North America and Asia
Note,
July 2017
Listed infrastructure is #fake_infra
EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra) shows that the booming listed infrastructure sector is based on a “fallacy of composition.” Listed infrastructure equity offers zero diversification benefits and is not an asset (...)
Note,
June 2017
ESG may entice investors to save more – Natixis Global Asset Management
The rising importance placed on environmental, social and governance investing may be the key driver in getting more individual investors, across generations, to invest more or even start planning for retirement, suggests new findings from Natixis Global Asset Management’s (...)
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