June 2015
Innovation Euronext launches wood pellet contract expansion into renewable energy sector
Euronext today announced that it will be launching a new Wood Pellet commodities futures contract in the autumn of 2015, subject to regulatory approval. Aimed at producers, wholesalers and retailers, this physically-settled contract targeting the residential heating sector, (...)
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December 2014
News New record day in Euronext milling wheat commodities
Euronext, the leading exchange in the Euro zone, today announced that on 16 December its commodities franchise achieved a second lifetime record daily volumes in the same month in milling wheat futures with 92,531 contracts (...)
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December 2014
Innovation Euronext launches Single Stock Dividend Futures
Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, today announced the launch of a range of Single Stock Dividend Futures on the most liquid stocks listed on its Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris markets.
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November 2014
Innovation State Street Global Advisors Launches the First European ETF to Provide Short Maturity Emerging Market Bond Exposure
The new ETF, which tracks the BofA Merrill Lynch 0–5 Year EM USD Government Bond ex-144a Index, looks to reflect the performance of short-maturity emerging market government debt issued in US dollars.
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October 2014
News PRIAC selected to provide longevity reinsurance to Legal & General for a portion of its bulk annuity portfolio
Prudential Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company (PRIAC), a Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI) company has announced that it will provide reinsurance to UK based insurer...
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August 2014
News Nomura issues 30 Year USD Callable Zero Coupon International Bonds in Taiwan
Nomura Bank International plc (the “Issuer”) today announced that it has issued US$325 million in principal amount of 30 Year USD Callable Zero Coupon Notes due 2044 (the “Notes”). The Notes were issued out of the Issuer’s Note, Warrant and Certificate Programme and are (...)
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August 2014
News 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 (...)
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August 2014
News 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.
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July 2014
Note Hedge funds: The CTAs drift
Since mid-2011, CTAs cumulative loss is between -10.6% (HFRI macro systematic index) and -16.8% (Credit Suisse Managed Futures Index). For the first quarter of this year, CTAs show a drawdown of about 3% which is expected to increase in April (-0.66% for HFRX CTA index) (...)
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July 2014
Strategy The potential of trend-following strategies remains intact
Penalised at the peak of the European debt crisis by highly correlated and non-trending markets, trend-following funds have retained their unrivalled ability to improve the efficiency of an investment portfolio. Better consideration of the issues associated with risk (...)
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June 2014
Innovation Nomura Asset Management to launch Nikkei 225 Double Inverse Index ETF
Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd., Japan’s largest asset management company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced plans to launch a new exchange traded fund (ETF) designed to track the performance of the Nikkei 225 Double Inverse (...)
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May 2014
Strategy EZ deflation risk not deterring buyers of inflation in primary
The strong demand in the primary market confirms what is already well known: whatever the inflation expectations, there is significant structural demand, notably from “buy and hold” investors such as pension funds, for bonds indexed to (...)
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April 2014
Note EDHEC-Risk Institute study shows that progress remains to be made in risk management for pension funds
The survey finds that LDI is popular, but in concrete terms the fund separation approach, which is consistent with the LDI paradigm, is not yet sufficiently widely applied to manage the LDI approach optimally, especially in southern European (...)
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April 2014
Innovation Koris International provides European institutional investors with full transparency on ETFs’ risks and performance
Koris International has recently launched a large scale transparency campaign on Exchange Traded Funds’ risks and performance. With over 10 years of experience in developing dynamic asset allocation solutions, mainly implemented using index funds and ETFs, the company (...)
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March 2014
Regulation ESMA issues good practices for structured retail product governance
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an opinion on structured retail products, setting out good practices for firms when manufacturing and distributing these products.
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