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IMG
Interview , March 2015
Nadia Grant: "US stocks are attractively valued in relation to other markets"
As the Nasdaq broke the 5,000 mark for the first time since 2000, Nadia Grant, US equities fund manager at Threadneedle Investments, explains in the Q&A why she believes that US stocks are attractively valued in relation to other markets and why they will gain support (...)
IMG
Interview , December 2014
Yves Choueifaty : "Our Smart Beta strategy is designed to maximize diversification of any given investment universe"
According to Yves Choueifaty, Founder and President of TOBAM, The main advantage of the TOBAM’s Anti-US Credit Benchmark® is to build a portfolio without "bias" towards highly indebted issuers or those belonging to a particular (...)
IMG
Interview , February 2014
Jad Comair : « We have much more interesting entry points to our dividend Futures strategies than those of our competitors in other asset classes »
Spin-off of the trading department of Société Générale, Jad Comair and his team have created Melanion Capital in order to provide investors with a new source of return on an innovative asset class , dividend Futures.
IMG
Interview , April 2013
Philippe Goubeault : « We could replace a benchmarked fund by a ’Smart Beta’ index »
According to Philippe Goubeault, CFO of Agirc Arrco, ’Smart Beta’ strategies can already be part of the asset allocation program of Agirc and Arrco even if their current weight in existing portfolios is not significant (...)
IMG
Interview , April 2013
Philip Tindall : « We see further development of non-market cap approaches in bonds »
According to Philip Tindall, senior investment consultant at Towers Watson, there has been a lot of interest in smart betas area, and investors are beginning to allocate assets - Towers Watson’s clients have invested more than (...)

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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