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C-suite shake-ups at German firm, investment manager and asset management company
C-suite shake-ups at German firm, investment manager and asset management company
Quilter Cheviot and Brewin Dolphin alums join private wealth management firm
European investors have piled into a Vanguard ETF tracking the S&P 500, despite the launch of a cheaper rival tracking US large-cap companies.
Passive investors pay scant regard to the fundamentals of individual securities and free-ride on the work of active investors with implications for financial stability, price discovery and index correlation, according to a paper from the Bank of International Settlements.
Lyxor Asset Management, the European fund manager wholly owned by Societe Generale, has launched what it claims to be the world’s first green bond exchange-traded fund (ETF).
Like everything else in the financial world the popularity of investment styles moves in cycles and, it would seem, like 90s fashion, thematic investment is seeing something of a revival.
Lyxor Asset Management has found that close to half of European domiciled active funds outperformed their benchmarks last year, a big increase on 2014.
Lyxor has listed a China A-shares ETF on the London Stock Exchange in a bid to take advantage on increased investor appetite for the market.
Lyxor Asset Management has launched four European equity products to allow investors to be more specific in their European exposure.
Lyxor has launched a senior debt fund that will focus on investments into the European loan market in a bid to capitalise on high yielding debt.
Hedge funds have weathered the relative storms attached to emerging markets, global growth and central banks in recent weeks.
London headquartered BlueBay Asset Management has appointed Staffan Kampe as director of sales Nordics.