The Lyxor Event-Driven index is now up for the fifth consecutive week in a row, and has outperformed other hedge fund strategies on a year to date basis. This is in line with our expectations to the extent that we have had the strategy at overweight over recent quarters.

According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, lower front-end rates have been pivotal to support flows into credit to the detriment of flows into equities. Investors continue to favour short-duration IG paper, while outflows continue from high duration pockets.

LGT Capital Partners Ltd., a leading alternative investment specialist, will acquire European Capital Fund Management Ltd. (European Capital), a London- and Paris-based private debt manager from companies controlled by Ares Management L.P. Subject to regulatory approvals, the transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2017.

A client asked me recently when the Fed or other central banks would ever be able to sell their assets back into the market. My answer was "NEVER". A $12 trillion global central bank balance sheet is PERMANENT - and growing at over $1 trillion a year, thanks to the ECB and the BOJ.

Mirova announces that BTP IL contributed to the project to design, build and operate the second-generation, very high-speed public broadband network for the Department of Savoy.