Events
Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof Hotel, Frankfurt, Deutschland
Cross Assets Outlook 2013 Frankfurt
Das in Cross Asset Solution und Global Asset Allocation spezialisierte Team von Société Générale bietet eine Übersicht über kommende Herausforderungen für das H2 2013.
Park Hyatt, Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich ETF Seminar 2013
It’s perhaps no surprise that the ETP industry is about to complete another year with strong asset growth. The global ETP industry surpassed the milestone figure of $2 trillion in total assets on January 2013, and finished the month with $2.04 trillion in assets.
Mandarin Oriental, Geneva, Switzerland
Natixis Global AM Breakfast Presentation
Please join us for a Natixis Global AM breakfast presentation with Patrick Artus, Isabelle Bourcier & Deborah Fuhr. This cabaret style breakfast presentation hosted by Natixis will give Suisse-Romande financial professionals the chance to hear some key updates from some leading professionals.
Madrid, Spain
Cross Assets Outlook 2013 Madrid
The presentation team at Société Générale, specialising in Cross Asset Solutions and Global Asset Allocation will provide an overview on the challenges investors would face in H2 for 2013.
Articles
A Pioneer In Enhanced Beta Strategies
OssiamOssiam is a research-driven French asset management firm (authorized by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers) and specializes in delivering smart beta1 solutions. Efficient indexing is at the core of Ossiam’s business model.
Expanding the ETF industry beyond traditional index funds
Invesco PowerSharesMarket-cap weighting – the problem
Since the launch of the S&P 500 as the first market capitalisation weighted index in 1957, the investment community has embraced market-cap weighting as the underlying methodology for nearly all market indices, as well as their investable index fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) counterparts. Quite literally, market-cap weighting has become “how you index,” and has been broadly accepted as an efficient way to access the equity markets.
Global Trends: Laurence D. Fink on Investment Megatrends
Credit Suisse23.04.2013Investors must focus on “objective-based” investing, rather than the headline of the day, says Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock – the world’s largest money manager. In this interview, he identifies the megatrends investors should take note of, and why the trends of ageing and longevity could create a global crisis if not addressed now.
News
3i to buy Barclays Infrastructure Funds Management
Fri, 24 May 2013LONDON (Reuters) - 3i Group is taking over the European infrastructure fund management business run by Barclays as part of a plan to boost fee income from public-private partnerships and energy investment projects.
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Pension funds relieved as EU drops capital rules proposal
Fri, 24 May 2013LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European regulators have dropped a bid to make pension funds subject to the same capital rules as banks and insurers, which could have cost European businesses billions of pounds to make their pension schemes more financially secure.
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European money market funds face cash buffer rule
Fri, 24 May 2013LONDON (Reuters) - About half of the European Union's trillion euro (850 billion pound) money market funds would have to set aside a chunk of cash under a proposed EU reform to make a run on a fund in rocky markets less likely.
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FCA fines JPMorgan 3 million pounds
Fri, 24 May 2013LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Conduct Authority said it has fined a wealth management unit of U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase 3.08 million pounds for being unable to show it was giving clients the right advice.
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