Hedge funds strongly recovered from the selloff, with only two exceptions: i) the fixed income funds, flat this week, still isolated from the epicenter, and ii) neutral equity funds, still suffering from sector and factor rotations. This week, we checked if the selloff altered the stock-pickers and trend-followers environments.

As unlikely as it seems, and despite the recent isolationist rhetoric of North Korea's Kim Jong-un, the 2018 Winter Olympics could witness the first steps towards the reunification of the Korean peninsula. Rivalled only by the coming together of East and West Germany in the 1990s, reunification would be a historic political event.

BNP Paribas Asset Management announces the appointment of Christophe Bonnefoux to the newly-created role of Chief Data Officer. Based in Paris, he joined on 22 January and reports to Fabrice Silberzan, BNPP AM's Chief Operating Officer.

The index holds globally listed companies with a minimum market capitalization of USD 1 billion operating in sectors such as factory automation equipment, semiconductors, industrial machine parts, and programmable logic devices. The index rules only select companies with positive one-year return.

In the Netherlands, the moderates hold on to power. Then came the election of French President Emmanuel Macron and the decisive victory of his newly founded movement, La République en Marche, in the French general elections.