Mirova announce the appointment of Ms Léa Dunand-Chatellet as Head of Equities
Ms Léa Dunand-Chatellet is appointed Head of Equities of Mirova. Reporting to Jens Peers, Chief Investment Officer for Equity, Fixed-Income & Impact Investing, she will be responsible for the team of 10 equity portfolio (...)
Source increases number of Managing Directors to nine
Source, an investment firm and a leading provider of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), is pleased to announce that Kevin Gant, James King and Stephen Crowe have been promoted to the position of Managing Director. In addition, five staff members have been promoted to Executive (...)
Societe Generale Securities Services appoints new Head of Commercial, Marketing and Liquidity Management
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has appointed Christophe Baurand as Global Head of Commercial, Marketing and Liquidity Management. Based in Paris, he reports to Bruno Prigent, Head of SGSS, and joins the SGSS Executive (...)
Nomura appoints Amanda Chen as Deputy Head of Wealth Management for Asia ex-Japan
Nomura, Asia’s global investment bank, today announced the appointment of Amanda Chen as Deputy Head of its Wealth Management Division for Asia exJapan.
New financing under the Investment Plan for Europe: Ginkgo 2
Building on its first vehicle, instigated by the Edmond de Rothschild Group in 2010, Ginkgo announces the first closing and launch of its second fund, Ginkgo 2, which targets the sustainable remediation of brownfield sites in urban (...)
State Street Global Advisors Launches 10 SPDR ETFs on the Euronext Exchange
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management arm of State Street Corporation, today announced that it has launched 10 World Sector SPDR Exchange Traded Funds on the Euronext Exchange.
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that it will publish a new index named the NOMURA FIG Index. The index is a weighted Index based on market value including accrued interest, consisting of bank bonds issued in (...)
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s (CalPERS) Board of Administration (Board) today laid out a path to review all of the System’s existing divestment initiatives, including tobacco. Based on directions given to CalPERS staff, the Board will consider (...)
Institutional investor appetite is back for quant funds
The recent CTA performances encourage institutional investors to more closely monitor this type of hedge fund. Thus, according to Preqin, 52% of them wish to increase their exposure to this type of alternative strategy this year (vs 14% last (...)