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Interview

IMG
Interview , May 2016
Caroline Le Meaux Lambert : « We are looking for strategies able to benefit from upward equity trends while limiting volatility »
Caroline Le Meaux Lambert, head of delegated asset management at Caisse des Dépôts for the French public pension fund Ircantec, tells us a little more about the Smart Beta concept.
IMG
Interview , April 2016
Pierre Richert : « It is important to enhance transparency, performance attribution and especially regulation for quant funds »
Pierre Richert, Agrica CFO – mutual company dedicated to the agriculture sector – still does not invest in quant funds. He considers necessary to enhance transparency, performance attribution and especially regulation for this kind of (...)
IMG
Interview , April 2016
Donald A. Steinbrugge : « A new CTA fund must have a strong differential advantage to have any chance of competing in the institutional market place. »
Donald A. Steinbrugge, managing partner at Agecroft Partners – US third party marketing firm specialized in hedge funds - gave us information regarding demand from institutional investors for CTAs
IMG
Interview , July 2015
Olivier Pleasant : "With Ecofi Enjeux Futurs, we want to invest in growth over the next decades"
According to Ecofi Investments "Meeting the actual needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" is the challenge of sustainable development, and the philosophy that we wanted to use when we set up this (...)
IMG
Interview , March 2015
Malik Haddouk : « In fixed income we are focusing in the short term on exposure to long maturities »
In fixed income, Malik Haddouk, Head of Balanced Management at CPR Asset Management and his team are focusing in the short term on exposure to long maturities (> 10 years), which are likely to get a boost from quantitative easing and weak (...)

Opinion

IMG
Strategy, February 2016
Commodities at peak bearishness, presenting major opportunity
ETF Securities, one of the world’s leading, independent providers of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), believes commodity markets may be close to their most attractive ever after continued levels of bearishness.
IMG
Opinion, February 2016
Japan steps up currency war
According to Keith Wade, Chief Economist & Strategist at Schroders, despite the market reaction, this move comes out of weakness and also raises the risk that China may retaliate with a further depreciation of its currency. If so, we will have entered a new phase in the (...)
IMG
Opinion, February 2016
Latest BoJ currency war salvo unlikely to be effective
According to Simon Ward, Chief Economist, Henderson Global Investors, the Bank of Japan’s surprise decision to introduce a negative interest rate on the top tier of banks’ reserve holdings recalls the famous Beyond the Fringe sketch in which Peter Cook’s squadron leader (...)
IMG
Opinion, January 2016
The US rate rise is symbolic
Sebastian Radcliffe, manager of the Jupiter North American Income Fund, comments on the decision by the US Federal Reserve to increase interest rates for the first time since 2006
IMG
Opinion, January 2016
The More Things Change …
For all that happened in 2015, one has to wonder if it will be lost in the textbooks as a pretty uneventful year. Sure it was the year of Ukraine, the Volkswagen scandal, “Unicorns”, ISIS, China’s slowdown, Fed “liftoff”, and another chapter in the Greece drama, but what really (...)
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