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Sunday 14 September 2025
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Innovation S&P Dow Jones Indices Adds Two Indices to the S&P Low Volatility Family
S&P Dow Jones Indices, the world's largest provider of financial market indices, announced today the launch of the S&P MidCap 400 Low Volatility Index and the S&P SmallCap 600 Low Volatility Index - which seek to measure the performance of the least volatile stocks within their respective benchmark index.
Innovation Ossiam adds Global Equities to Minimum Variance strategies
Ossiam, the smart beta and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) investment manager and affiliate of Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM), has today announced the launch of its latest ETF which offers access to its minimum variance strategy applied to global developed equity markets.
Note Institutional investors around the globe say market volatility is here to stay according to a NGAM survey
Below are highlights of a survey of 482 institutional investors around the globe by NGAM, one of the 15 largest asset managers in the world based on assets under management, which was released on September 25, 2012 by NGAM's Durable Portfolio Construction Research Center.
Interview Philippe Mills : « This year, half of the net buyers of French debt come from Asia and the Middle East »
What is the role of the French Treasury Agency (AFT)? Who holds the French debt? How are OAT and BTF issues conducted? Philip Mills, CEO of the French Treasury Agency answers Next Finance questions...
Strategy Africa: Kenya's Mobile Frontier
When we first started out in the emerging markets space more than two decades ago, we were in “frontier” territory as we entered markets such as Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey and Brazil that were previously closed to foreign investors.