Innovation BlackRock has expanded its Asian equity fund range by launching the BlackRock Global Funds (BGF) China Flexible Equity Fund
The Fund is designed to enable a growing number of investors seeking to access opportunities in both onshore (A-shares) and offshore (H-shares, Red-chips, P-chips, American Depositary Receipts [ADRs], etc.) Chinese equity markets without having the need to allocate to two (...)
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Opinion The year of the rat: China’s Economy is strong but investors need to be on their guard
As China enters the Year of the Rat this Saturday (25 January), Jasmine Kang, Portfolio Manager at Comgest, the independent, international asset management group focused on quality growth investing, believes that China’s growth has become more sustainable but that (...)
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Strategy Does a liquidity factor premium exist in the stock market?
Academic studies present ample evidence in support of the existence of four factor premiums in stock markets: Low Risk, Value, Momentum, and Quality. Factor investing puts these concepts into practice by enabling investors to allocate their capital explicitly to these (...)
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Strategy The Euro’s Survival and traditional asset classes prospects for 2012
On the basis of the survival «in fine» of the Euro through a constrained and massive indirect monetization from the ECB, what are the expectations for 2012 on foreign exchange, short-term rates, long-term rates and (...)
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News The inexorable growth of the dividends "futures" market
Dividend Futures give rise to growing interest among market professionals, including fund management companies based in France, as evidenced by the recent launch of strategies specifically dedicated to this market segment, particularly in Melanion Capital or Laffitte Capital (...)
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Strategy Eric Robbe : « Investors clearly understand the issue to be placed on this asset class" »
According to Eric Robbe, President of Laffitte Capital Management, it is very easy to measure the tail risk on dividends strategies, which gives its full dimension to the robustness of the portfolio allocation in a management process based on the budget risk that one (...)
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Opinion China goes for ’gently does it’
Chinese economic reforms continue, but the authorities are going about it carefully. After all, they don’t want to risk missing their growth targets. Oil-price declines and the US growth recovery are providing some welcome wind in China’s (...)
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Strategy Goldman Sachs : « Hedging by purchasing puts on bank shares !»
With the rise in the probability of extreme risks taking place, the purchase of puts on bank shares, considering the implicit volatility on the Eurostoxx 50, seems to be an attractive hedge for long term investors according to Goldman (...)
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Strategy Convertibles: a good trade-off in the current crisis!
The profile of the convertible bond-holder base has changed radically and the vast majority of the market is now held by long-only funds whereas in 2008 highly-leveraged hedge funds were the main holders.
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Interview The Rise of TRFs – How Funds Use Them to Generate Alpha
Hedge funds and traditional institutional investors are increasingly turning to total return futures (TRFs) to get exposure to the repo market related to an underlying index such as the EURO STOXX 50® Index. Antoine Deix, Senior Equity Derivatives Strategist at BNP Paribas, (...)
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