Nomura ICG K.K. (“Nomura ICG”), the 50:50 partnership between Nomura Holdings, Inc. (“Nomura”) and Intermediate Capital Group plc. (“ICG”) announces the first close on their Japan mezzanine fund, NICG Investment Business Limited Partnership A (the “Fund”) at ¥28 billion from 15 investors. The Fund intends to hold its final close in 2015.

According to Société Générale's cross asset research team, there are two types of value investor: patient value investors, who seek to benefit from compounding above-average dividend yields offered by quality companies; and brave value investors, who seek to gain from a share price recovery in companies currently discounted by the market...

According to Yves Choueifaty, Founder and President of TOBAM, The main advantage of the TOBAM's Anti-US Credit Benchmark® is to build a portfolio without "bias" towards highly indebted issuers or those belonging to a particular industry...

The term ‘Smart Beta' has recently established itself as the clear winner in the battle to become the investment industry's preferred label for an eclectic mix of diverse investment strategies. The common thread linking these various ‘Smart Beta' approaches is the objective of providing investors with a ‘different' – but still systematic – equity exposure to that offered by traditional cap-weighted indices.

PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, and Source, a leading European provider of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), are launching the first ETFs in Europe that provide actively managed exposure to the short-dated segment of the investment grade corporate bond market.