State Street Global Advisors Strengthens its Global ETF Business
Jim Ross, current head of SSGA’s SPDR ETF Business and Intermediary Distribution, has been named chairman, Global SPDR and SSGA Funds Management. Nick Good, current chief operating officer of the North American Intermediary Business Group, and Rory Tobin, current head of (...)
Professor Riccardo Rebonato joins EDHEC-Risk Institute
Professor Riccardo Rebonato, a specialist in interest rate risk modelling with applications to bond portfolio management and fixed-income derivatives pricing, has joined EDHEC-Risk Institute on May 2, 2016. He also joined the EDHEC (...)
Axioma Continues European Expansion with Appointment of Head of Multi-Asset Class Solutions
Axioma, a leading provider of innovative risk solutions for buy-side institutions, today announced the appointment of Sunay Shah as Head of Multi-Asset Class Solutions for EMEA, including Axioma RiskTM, the company’s multi-asset class (MAC) risk (...)
Varma invests EUR 230 million in State Street’s sustainable climate bond funds
Varma invested EUR 230 million in the Sustainable Climate Corporate Bond Funds of the world’s third-largest asset manager State Street Global Advisors. The funds aim to achieve a significant reduction in investors’ exposure to carbon emissions and allocate capital to fund the (...)
Astorg enters into exclusive negotiations to acquire Solina from Ardian
Astorg is pleased to announce that it has entered into exclusive negotiations to become the new majority shareholder of Solina, the leading European manufacturer of ingredient and seasoning blends for the food industry, from Ardian. Solina’s management will reinvest a (...)
CPR AM expands its climate offering with two new open-ended funds
CPR AM, the thematic equities arm of the largest European asset manager Amundi, is expanding its range of investment solutions dedicated to combatting climate change with the launch of: CPR Invest – Climate Action Euro, an open-ended Eurozone equity fund and CPR Invest – (...)
Fitch: Amundi’s Lyxor Acquisition Highlights Continued Shift to Passives
Amundi’s (A+/Stable) announced acquisition of the core activities of Lyxor from Societe Generale S.A. (A-/Stable) reflects the importance of passive management in Europe in the current environment and is in line with structural market trends, says Fitch (...)
The equity exposure of our portfolios is still relatively high
CPR Asset Management maintains a bias favorable to value stocks. Nonetheless, the management company took some profits in some of these segments during the month, such as North American small caps and the oil sector.