August 2011
Regulation AMF renews the short selling ban on financial sector
The Board of the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) renews the ban on taking net short positions in French securities of the financial sector
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August 2011
Opinion Today’s European country in the sovereign debt crisis spotlight is…France
Russell Investments’ Chief Investment officer – Client Investment Strategies Erik Ristuben explains why the European sovereign debt crisis is spilling over into France
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August 2011
News Rumors were close to destroy the Société Générale
4 Billion losses related to ETFs, losses in its Greek subsidiary and ECB rescue amounting € 5 Billion...this is an anthology of the rumors that ran in the markets about Société Générale.
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July 2011
Note 10 to €12 billion of structured loans exhibit a high potential risk!
According to Didier Migaud, president of French revenue court, loans with interest rates linked to spreads out of the eurozone should be banned as well as those using leverage...
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July 2011
Salary & Bonus Determination of Salaries
How are salaries fixed? Are they controlled by companies? Or by the State? Perhaps they are controlled by syndicates? Or is it an obscure system controlled by hidden forces? Not at all. Long term, it?s a different (...)
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July 2011
Note Real estate: Attempting to explain the increase in prices.
The situation appears to be a paradox. France is just coming out of a crisis but real estate prices have sharply increased during the previous months and have only slightly decreased at the height of the crisis. How can this phenomenon be (...)
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May 2011
Profile Job market: Private Banking and Wealth Management
How to build, manage and retain staff? What are the evaluation criteria for good wealth managers ? What are the market’s compensation levels ? Specialised recruitment company, Norman Alex, shares with us their analysis and (...)
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May 2011
Innovation Natixis reopens the securitization market in France
Natixis played an active role in the reopening of the primary securitization market in Europe with the first French asset securitization since the beginning of the crisis in 2007 for Socram Banque (Titrisocram (...)
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May 2011
News Nexar Capital Group, a global alternative investment manager, acquires Ermitage
Nexar Capital Group SCA announced yesterday the acquisition of Ermitage Limited, one of Europe’s pioneering alternative asset management organizations, from Caledonia Investments plc
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April 2011
News BNP Paribas Securities Services has been appointed global custodian of all life and non-life insurance assets of the MAIF group
The deal covers €13 billion in assets. MAIF is a mutual insurance company at the head of an insurance group that has almost 2.7 million members.
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April 2011
Innovation Sélection 1818: the new platform dedicated to independent financial advisors
Banque Privée 1818 and Rothschild & Cie Banque have signed the final agreement for the creation of their common platform dedicated to independent financial advisors, born out of the merger of Sélection R and 1818 (...)
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March 2011
Opinion Asset management: How to interpret managers awards?
One needs just to visit the premises of an asset management firm or to browse its website to find trophies and awards proudly displayed. What credit should be given to these awards?
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February 2011
News 2010 report on European asset management : specialists laugh, global players cry!
According to a study of Morningstar, the year 2010 has been a blank year for the European traditional industry of fund management with a strong outflow in the money market offset by inflows on risky assets ...
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January 2011
News Will the new interest rate of PEL (french housing savings plan) be a booster for the CMS spread market?
As the market of spreads on Constant Maturity Swaps (CMS) had been reducing to almost nothing since the crisis, the new valuation methodology of PEL could be a booster ...
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January 2011
Salary & Bonus Michel Camdessus issues his report on the traders’ bonuses
According to Michel Camdessus, the application of new standards and the action of bonuses supervisor have reduced 2009 bonus pool by 800 million euros ...
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«Talents de la Gestion 2011» Awards -
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