Nordea launched a fund that will capitalize on the growing evidence of gender balance within a company being positive for earnings. The Global Gender Diversity Fund will invest in companies that actively seek to improve the gender balance. This increases the likelihood of finding the best employees possible and thus of optimising results.

Solactive announces that Avanza, a digital platform for savings and investments, released the AVA Gender Equality Tracker utilizing the Solactive Equileap Europe Gender Equality Index, which selects the top 75 European companies leading in the field of gender equality based on Equileap's Gender Scoring methodology.

Partners Capital adds to its senior management team with the promotions of Elizabeth Trotta and Adam Watson, from Senior Principal to Managing Director. Together the 15 Partners and 6 Managing Directors, led by Stan Miranda as Founder and CEO, oversee a global team of 160 people, across six offices.

Draghi essentially confessed to what everyone already knows - the European economy , after a short bout of strength in late 2017/early 2018 - is decelerating again.

Hedge fund strategies experienced a symmetric move. The strategies that suffered in December such as L/S Equity and Relative Value Arbitrage rebounded recently, while those resilient at the end of 2018, such as CTAs, lagged behind so far in Q1 due to their short equity positions.