Allocation
Sunday 14 September 2025
Articles
Interview Alain Albizzati: "It is necessary to bring more transparency to the process of quantitative fund management"
According to Alain Albizzati, Head of Alternative Investments and Structured Products at Lazard Frères Gestion, private investors and institutional investors do not have the means to perform very advanced "due diligence,", and focus on local and recognized management companies...
News Alternative strategies generate alpha in a volatile month
Thirteen Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 14 ended the month
in positive territory, led by the Fixed Income Arbitrage (+1.2%),
the Lyxor Long/Short Credit Arbitrage Index (+1%) and the L/S
Equity - Market Neutral Index (+0.9%). The Lyxor Hedge Fund
Index posted a positive performance at 0.4% in November
(+2% in 2012 to date)...
Opinion Benchmarking: The Multi-Asset Class Exception
Ask any active fund manager about his benchmark, and he
will have a ready-made answer. Even fixed-income managers
have plenty of indices to choose from. The call is trickier for diversified fund managers...
Interview Aymeric Poizot : « The best multi-asset funds managers are often those who developed a fundamental allocation in the bond market or used quantitative models as tools for decision support»
According to Aymeric Poizot, Head of EMEA Fund & Asset Manager Rating Group at Fitch, multi-asset funds remain relevant in the current context, whether for an institutional investor or a private investor…
Innovation Amundi broadens its minimum variance expertise with the launch of Amundi Funds Equity Global Minimum Variance
UCITS IV compliant, this sub-fund seeks to outperform the MSCI World index, over a 5-year investment horizon, whilst aiming to maintain a lower level of volatility than that of the index...