French asset management group La Française has partnered with financial institutions services provider Global Property Research (GPR) to launch the sustainable global real estate index GPR IPCM LFFS Sustainable GRES Index. The new index, designed for institutional investors, is aimed at setting new standards in terms of sustainability in the listed real estate sector. Inflection Point Capital Management […]
French manager incubator Emergence has made its first investment for its new equity compartment launched in June 2017, Emergence Actions II. Some €50m have been poured into the Via Smart Equity Europe fund, a systematic European equity strategy unveiled in March 2016 by Paris-based boutique Via AM. It forms the largest investment ever made by […]
French systematic investment firm KeyQuant has been allocated $30m from the Colorado Fire and Police Pension Association (FFPA), taking the firm’s AuM to over $350m (€294.1m). This $30m (€25.2m) investment was made from the association’s benefit investment fund, managing $4.6bn (€3.86bn) of assets. The Paris-based quantitative boutique has earned additional allocations over the last year […]
BBVA Asset Management has launched Bindex, a range of index funds dedicated to institutional investors, pension funds and discretionary portfolio management. The Bindex fund range encompasses four index funds: Bindex Spain Index, which replicates the Ibex 35, Bindex Euro Index (Euro Stoxx 50), Bindex Europa Index (MSCI Europe) and Bindex USA Covered Index-which will be […]
French emerging manager incubator NewAlpha Asset Management has closed its first French venture capital fund dedicated to fintech companies and launched in November 2015 after it raised some €56m of assets from French institutional investors. The closing of the fund has been announced following the injection of €15m in capital by the French Tech Acceleration […]
French manager seeding Sicav Emergence has launched a European equity compartment, Emergence Actions II, with the concourse of NewAlpha Asset Management. Emergence Actions II seeks to raise around €300m towards large French and foreign institutional investors. Funds will go into a limited number of European equity strategies developed by entrepreneurial boutiques that have more than […]
French ministries of Social Affairs and Finance have unveiled a new decree amending the financial management of French pension funds after the first version released in June 2016 was challenged by the interested parties. It appears however that the second version, due to enter in force on 1 July 2017, is still contested by a […]
Paris-based boutique Amilton Asset Management has appointed Jean-Claude Guimiot as head of its institutional asset management division. Guimiot will develop Amilton’s offering towards institutional investors. He will also take part to the development of the 2i Sélection fund of funds which aims to detect French emerging and innovative asset managers. Guimiot has been deputy CEO […]
French financial group Primonial has launched Derivative Solutions, a company focused on the research and the development of structured products for institutional and private investors. Primonial has partnered with Brice Gimeno, who headed and developed the structured products division of the firm (Primonial Derivatives) from 2007 to 2016, for the establishment of the new entity. […]
London-based firm DLT Financial has unveiled plans to launch a 10-cryptocurrencies tracker fund with the aim of bringing the asset class into the institutional space. The Gibraltar Stock Exchange saw the first European listing of a BitCoin ETI last July. A couple of months later, DLT Financial, a new company born out of London-based financial […]
Paris-based advisory firm Insti7, advising a number of institutional clients since 2007, has recently strengthened its team with the hire of former Vega Investment Managers’ head of Fund Advisory Céline Kalfa as head of Fund Research and Analysis. Insti7’s co-founder and CEO Benoit Boru (pictured, credit C.Boulze) occupied the role before Kalfa joins the firm. […]
The French government is rewriting a decree amending the financial management of local pension funds after its first version unveiled in June was challenged. Reforming the financial management of French pension funds is a hot topic. Proposed amendments to existing law aim to bring a harmonised and stricter framework to the organisation of all French […]
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