Philippe Desfossés : « Our SRI approach has two advantages, the absence of sectorial bias and investment in all sectors »
Philip Desfossés, Director of ERAFP (Establishment of additional retirement of civil servants), the first French public pension funds, introduces their 100% SRI management and their Best In Class approach ...
Arnaud Chrétien and Serge Darolles : «The objective of QuantValley is to become the calling card for French Quantitive management»
Challenges, positioning and quantative management outlook in France. Arnaud Chrétien and Serge Darolles, respectively Chairman and deputy chairman of QuantValley, answer our questions and introduce us to their project aimed at promoting Paris’ image as a city of (...)
Bruno Le Chevallier : « We have got rid of all banking stocks and have expanded sales to insurers »
According to CCR Opportunity Fund manager, Bruno Le Chevallier, an optimistic scenario can lead markets to bounce back by about 10% to 15% by the end of the year.
Christophe Dehondt : « Current levels of inflation break-even are buying opportunities »
According to Christophe Dehondt, fund manager of CPR Focus Inflation, it is possible to benefit from the rise in inflation while being hedged against rising interest rates by buying inflation-linked bonds and selling traditional sovereign bonds with similar (...)
Jürgen Maier: «Emerging Markets will continue to become more and more important for the global economy and capital markets »
According to Jürgen Maier, fund manager in the team «Emerging Markets Equities» at Raiffeisen Capital Management, Emerging Markets have weathered the economic crisis and will remain competitive thanks to massive investments in infrastructure in the years to come and enormous (...)
Despite increased optimism at the start of the year, growth forecasts for the US economy are once again falling towards the 2% trend pace of recent years. The faster-than-anticipated fall in unemployment appears to betray a fall in the economy’s potential rate of (...)
According to Daniel Isidori, fund manager at Threadneedle Investments, the Brazilian companies most affected by the upcoming election are state owned and rather than taking exposure to all of them, he suggests to have a small overweight in the energy giant (...)
Euro-denominated money market funds have already taken investment and operational measures to prepare for yields declining or even turning negative, should short-term money market rates shift in that direction following the European Central Bank’s decision to cut the rate on (...)
Fitch: ECB Reduces Deflation Risk, But Impact May Be Limited
The ECB’s package of measures providing additional monetary policy accommodation reduces the risk of deflation in the eurozone, but it may not lift inflation from its very low levels, Fitch Ratings says.
The crisis in Ukraine has global markets on edge—and investors fear that deflation could prove a long-term problem for the Eurozone. What matters most, though, is an objective look at economic and financial data.