Unigestion, an institutional asset manager that focuses on providing its clients with a tailor-made range of risk-managed investment solutions, announces the launch of its Private Debt Allocator tool, which identifies private debt opportunities to exactly match clients’ (...)
Lyxor launches the first ETF on the top rated high yield corporate bonds
Lyxor Asset Management (Lyxor) announces the launch of an ETF that offers investors access to EUR-denominated corporate bonds with the highest sub-investment grade credit rating in order to offer a potential higher (...)
Lombard Odier Investment Managers and ETF Securities join forces to offer fundamental fixed income exchange traded funds
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (“Lombard Odier IM”), a pioneer in smart beta fixed income investing, and ETF Securities, one of the world’s leading innovators of exchange traded products (“ETPs”), have partnered to offer a range of transparent, cost-effective and (...)
Source launches currency-hedged share classes of its JPX-Nikkei 400 ETF
Source, a leading provider of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), is pleased to announce the launch of USD- and EUR-hedged share classes of the Source JPX-Nikkei 400 UCITS ETF. At the same time, Source has reduced the annual management fee on the unhedged ETF to 0.20% from (...)
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index gained 0.2% in September (+2.2% in 2012). 11 Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 14 ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor Event Driven - Special Situations Index (+2.2%) and the Lyxor L/S Equity – Long Bias Index (...)
Fixed-income instruments exhibited significant performance across all risk classes: worldwide and US high-grade (1.01% and 0.93% respectively), convertibles (0.95%), and the credit-spread index (0.66%)…
Discus Fund, one of CFM flagship funds, posted 23 percent year-to-date positive returns as of october end, the best performance amongst all the global systematic funds. This is the confirmation the know-how of the French manager which has shown exceptional trackrecords for (...)
What about performances of active management versus passive management ? According to a study released by Olivier Scaillet and Gilles Criton, nearly 20% of alternative fund managers beat the market, against only 0,6% of traditional (...)
John Paulson has lost nearly $ 500 million betting on Sino-Forest
Paulson & co and many other fund management companies have been caught by the markets after the revelations about Sino-Forest real wealth. Is it a lesson taught to the funds invested in shares of companies expected to capture growth in emerging markets (...)