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News CalPERS Reports Preliminary 8.6 Percent Investment Return for Fiscal Year 2017-18

CalPERS reported a preliminary 8.6 percent net return on investments for the 12-month period that ended June 30, 2018. CalPERS assets at the end of the fiscal year stood at more than $351 billion.

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News Raize lists on Euronext

Euronext welcomed Raize Serviços de Gestão (Raize) on its listing in Euronext Access in Lisbon.

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News BlackRock Real Assets completes first close of Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund III

BlackRock Real Assets has completed the first close of its latest energy and power infrastructure fund, Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund III (“GEPIF III”). GEPIF III focuses on equity investments in the mid-market energy and power infrastructure value chain (...)

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News ETFGI reports 44th consecutive month of net inflows into ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe with US$2.89 billion in net new assets during May 2018

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported net inflows of US$2.89 billion into ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe during May 2018, marking the 44th consecutive month of net inflows into European-listed (...)

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News Natixis Investment Managers to Acquire Stake in WCM Investment Management, Form Global Distribution Partnership

Natixis Investment Managers (Natixis) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire a minority stake in WCM Investment Management (WCM) and become their exclusive third-party distributor, subject to limited exclusions.

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News Nomura Lists Emerging Market Bond and Equity Exchange Traded Funds on TSE

Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd., the core company within the Asset Management Division of the Nomura Group, listed the “NEXT FUNDS Emerging Market Bond J.P. Morgan EMBI Plus (Unhedged) Exchange Traded Fund” and the “NEXT FUNDS Emerging Market Equity MSCI-EM (Unhedged) (...)

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News Natixis expands its private debt capabilities with the acquisition of MV Credit

The acquisition of MV Credit marks another important step in the development of Natixis Investment Managers’ European real assets range, providing investors with access to a wide range of strategies in private equity, private debt, real estate, and (...)

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News Xiaomi Corporation Announces Proposed Listing on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong

Xiaomi Corporation (“Xiaomi” or “the Company”, stock code: 1810) today announced details of its global offering (the “Global Offering”) and its proposed listing on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

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News 2CRSI lists on Euronext Paris

Euronext today welcomed the IPO of 2CRSI, a Strasbourg-based producer of high-performance computer servers, on its regulated market.

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News Enensys technologies lists on Euronext Growth

Euronext welcomes the listing of Enensys Technologies, specialist in telecommunications, on Euronext Growth in Paris.

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News Luxcara brings Norway one step closer to its climate goals: Opening celebration of Egersund wind farm

Luxcara, one of the leading asset managers for renewable-energy investments, has officially opened a wind farm comprising 33 turbines in Egersund, Norway. The facility, which was completed in only 15 months, has a total capacity of 111.2 (...)

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News Ostrum Asset Management and Natixis’ Corporate & Investment Banking arm join forces to set up co-investment offering on real asset private debt

Ostrum Asset Management and Natixis’ Corporate & Investment Banking arm are joining forces to address their clients’ interest in alternative investment solutions by setting up a co-investment offering on real asset private debt in three strategic sectors for the group – (...)

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News Credit Strategy : Follow The Flow: No flows...no bull market

BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research highlights the importance of the peripheral trade (BTPs vs. Bunds) for the health of the credit market. Should peripheral spreads fail to rebound, BofA Merrill Lynch think that flows into credit will struggle going forward and so will (...)

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News State Street Global Advisors Integrates ESG as Factor in its Global Core Factors Fund

State Street Global Advisors, the asset management arm of State Street Corporation, announced today that it has integrated environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria as an additional factor in its Multi-Factor Global Equity (...)

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News Launch of Flexi I, the latest addition to CNP Patrimoine’s Flexi offer

CNP Patrimoine, CNP Assurances’s wealth management business, has announced the launch of Flexi I, a new option to seize equity market opportunities while keeping savings secure

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News BlackRock Agrees to Acquire Global Infrastructure Partners (“GIP”), Creating a World Leading Infrastructure Private Markets Investment Platform

GIP is the world’s largest independent infrastructure manager with over $100 billion in AUM and a strong reputation for driving operational improvements in its portfolio companies & proprietary origination

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News Julius Baer to acquire Merrill Lynch’s International Wealth Management business outside the United States from Bank of America

BofAML will provide certain products and services to Julius Baer, including the provision of global equity research, product offerings, as well as structured and advisory products. In addition there will be cross-referral of clients between both (...)

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News Agence France Trésor announced the successful launch of the first French sovereign green bond

Today, Agence France Trésor announced the successful launch of the first French sovereign green bond with a maturity of 22 years. The Green OAT 1.75% 25 June 2039 issuance amount was €7bn, making it the largest and longest-dated green bond ever (...)

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News The market for catastrophe bonds (« Cat bonds ») remains dynamic!

Over the 12 months, the market for Cat bonds - bonds issued by securitization structure to refinance insurance risks related to natural disaster - remains dynamic, both in terms of volume and performance...

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News Swiss Re Corporate Solutions joins forces with Seguros Confianza, Colombia’s leading specialty insurer, and acquires a majority stake

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions and owners of Compañía Aseguradora de Fianzas S.A. Confianza ("Confianza") have signed an agreement under which Corporate Solutions will acquire a 51% stake in Confianza. This arrangement will provide Colombian corporate clients local access to (...)

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News SUEZ successfully launches a 500 million euros green bond issuance

With a 5.5 times oversubscription and an order book totalling 2.7 billion euros, this issuance has been a huge success. More than 200 investors have once again shown their confidence in SUEZ: the very strong demand allowed to tighten the credit margin by 40 bps compared with (...)

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News Rouble, Rates Moves Heighten Russian Economy Risks

Risks to Russia’s economy in 2015 have been increased by this week’s extreme volatility in the rouble and the sharp rise in interest rates, Fitch Ratings says.

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News CTAs are on the mend

After a dismal performance and significant outflows in 2018, trend following strategies are on the mend. A month ago, we signaled the strategy was experiencing green shoots of recovery ; so far this month, it has been the best performing (...)

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News Societe Generale further reduces its involvement in coal

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News DWS Supports Drive Towards Climate Resilient Infrastructure Investments

DWS Group, along with more than 30 other institutions, supports the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI). The goal of the CCRI is to transform infrastructure investments by integrating climate risks into the decision-making process, driving a paradigm shift (...)

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News ISEAL’s First Infrastructure Standard: SuRe® – The Standard for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

Infrastructure development in cities is key to fighting climate change and fostering sustainable development. Cities need to become more inclusive, resilient and sustainable as stated by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Number (...)

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News Vauban Infrastructure Partners acquires four district heating networks in Spain - a green projet connecting more than 25,000 dwellings by 2028

Vauban Infrastructure Partners announces the closing of the transaction related to the acquisition of 100% stake in 4 district heating networks in Spain, an eminently “green project” connecting more than 25,000 dwellings to these networks by (...)

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News Schroders Greencoat builds on renewable energy demand with launch of semi-liquid energy transition fund

Schroders Greencoat, the specialist renewables and energy transition infrastructure manager of Schroders Capital, today announces the launch of the Schroders Capital Semi-Liquid Energy Transition Fund, the latest addition to its innovative fund range which also addresses (...)

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News Nomura to Acquire Shares of 8 Securities and 8 Limited

Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (“NAM”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with FinTech company 8 Securities Inc. (“8 Securities”) and its Hong Kong headquartered parent company 8 Limited (“8 Limited”) (...)

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News French bank Société Générale victim of exceptional fraud!

Société Générale has declared itself a victim of an unscrupulous trader who concealed a massive loss of 4,9 billion dollars as well as a depreciation of assets linked to sub-primes to a total of 2 billion euros....

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