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...The move follows deals in which big asset managers, including Ares, Franklin Templeton and PGIM, have increased exposure to the secondaries markets....
...Paris-based Amundi said on Wednesday that it had signed a binding agreement to buy Alpha Associates, a 20-year-old company based in Zurich that manages €8.5bn of assets....
...Unhedged: If markets are less efficient today, why have the classic active managers, the Franklin Templetons of the world, had such a bad time of it?...
...FT Executive Education Ranking 2022 France’s HEC Paris has topped the FT’s twin annual executive education rankings for open-enrolment programmes and custom courses for corporate clients for the first time...
...Several such funds had miners Rio Tinto and BHP in their top 10 holdings, while a Franklin Templeton “sustainable equity fund” held oil company Woodside Petroleum....
...at Caffè Stern in the passage des Panoramas — the oldest of the covered passages of Paris....
...“Divestment (or the threat of it) has a key part to play in achieving the Paris goals,” one responded....
...Morningstar expects providers to introduce more Paris Agreement-aligned core equity ETFs in 2021 following launches by Amundi, Lyxor and Franklin Templeton last year....
...And while the Paris-based bank launched an audit into its lucrative fund management subsidiary, Natixis repeatedly refused to disclose the findings....
...Rumours have resurfaced that Lyxor, the Paris-based asset manager, will be sold by its owner Société Générale because the French bank wants to strengthen its balance sheet....
...But now, with the help of Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, the party’s leaders sense a glimmer of light on the horizon....
...“We’ve passed the peak of negative economic data,” said Grant Bowers, an equity portfolio manager with Franklin Templeton....
...host of hedge funds hurt by the August market rout, including emerging market specialists Autonomy Capital, which lost $1bn in one month, and Michael Hasenstab, the famed bond fund manager at Franklin Templeton...
...Chetan Sehgal at Templeton Emerging Markets says the longer-term outlook for the Chinese economy is “unchanged”....
...Pierre Masclet has been appointed deputy chief executive, a Paris-based role he will assume in July. He is currently chief executive for Asia....
...His buyers typically spend about €1.5m and are mostly from Paris, with 30-40 per cent coming from abroad: “mainly British, Belgian and Swiss”, he adds....
...Franklin Templeton, the $683bn California-based asset manager, has hired Jin Mei as head of its wholly foreign-owned enterprise in China. Mr Mei joins from Natixis Investment Managers....
...“We’ll have to go to Paris, Munich or somewhere else in the EU,” Mr Mobius said of his firm. “I would like to go to Spain. I want warm weather.”...
...Ms Bioy says funds that are trying to do this include Templeton Global Climate Change, Aviva Investors Climate Transition European Equity Fund, and DWS Invest Climate Tech fund....
...Ms Ambachtsheer has moved to the €568bn investment arm of the Paris-listed bank from Mercer, the consultant, where she chaired responsible investment....
...• Stephanie Carbonneil has moved to Amundi as head of third party distribution for UK, Ireland and Greece for the €1.4tn Paris-listed asset manager....
...Mr Mobius left Franklin Templeton in January after a 30-year career with the US asset manager....
...The vast majority, including BlackRock, Schroders and Franklin Templeton, have opted to absorb the cost of paying for research themselves....
...Axa Investment Managers has fund management centres in Paris and London....
...An association of 12 institutions (including Oxford, St Andrews, Leiden, Helsinki, Paris, Prague and Krakow), it regularly brings together students and faculty working in the humanities and social sciences...
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