ICAP plc, the interdealer broker, and Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc have revealed that their joint venture, ICAP-JLT, has brokered its first catastrophe swap transaction.
Hedge funds have added fuel to merger talk in the US airline sector.
Masashi Oda, Chief Investment Officer, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group on the latest activity in Japanese equity markets… Despite downward revisions to consensus forecasts, the Japanese equity market still offers an attractive forward PER of 12.1x: a historic low. The market
The most anticipated financial event since the birth of the euro has finally come to pass.
CFA UK has released the results of its latest quarterly Valuations Index, measuring investors’ perceptions of the value of equities, bonds and gold in Q1 2019. The index reveals multiple changes in investors’ views of core asset classes since the
By James Williams – It has been an encouraging first six months of 2012 for the alternative UCITS market. A couple of years ago total assets in these products were around EUR80billion. Now, according to Alix Capital, a Geneva-based firm
Barry Norris (pictured), Partner, Argonaut Capital Partners and Manager of the Ignis Argonaut European Alpha Fund, on how the Eurozone is defying the doom-mongers… When S&P downgraded France, Spain and Italy earlier this year it was seen by many observers
An overwhelming majority (91 per cent) of investors in alternatives believe that the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will help the financial industry address pressing environmental and social issues. A quarter of them already integrate the SDGs into their investment
The most anticipated financial event since the birth of the euro has finally come to pass.
Standard Life Investments’ distribution partnership with Länsförsäkringar has secured over EUR30m sales in the first five months. Länsförsäkringar, Sweden’s only customer owned and locally based banking and insurance group, started offering the Standard Life Investments Global Absolute Returns Strategies Fund
