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Christophe Bardy | Organisation and strategy facilitator For Investment Manager
Christophe Bardy
Organisation and strategy facilitator For Investment Manager
BNP Paribas takes stake in Paris hedge fund manager
Monday, February 19, 2007

Mon, 12 Feb 2007

BNP Paribas Asset Management has signed an agreement under which it will take a minority stake in Finaltis, a Paris-based independent asset management company focused on alternative techniques, and invest in its hedge funds.

This investment is part of am incubation and seeding programme initiated by Gilles de Vaugrigneuse 18 months ago on behalf of BNP Paribas Asset Management & Services, and is designed to provide Finaltis with the resources to strengthen its efforts to develop high value, innovative alternative investment approaches.

The firm, which is headed by chief executive Denis Beaudoin and regulated by the French financial supervisor, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, is aiming to become a key player in the hedge fund market in continental Europe, offering single-strategy and multi-strategy high alpha products to professional investors.

The Finaltis team of 17 staff including nine fund managers has developed a range of products based on techniques including statistical ...

Christophe Bardy | Organisation and strategy facilitator to Investment Management Companies
Christophe Bardy
Organisation and strategy facilitator to Investment Management Companies
New York veut "combattre" pour rester la première place financière mondiale
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

AGEFI
par Thierry Arnaud,
à New York

D’ici dix ans, la place de New York est appelée se transformer de capitale financière mondiale en un simple marché régional si rien n’est fait pour entamer le déclin de compétitivité qu’elle accuse face à des concurrentes telles que Londres. Tel est le constat sans ambiguïté dressé dans un rapport de 142 pages, réalisé par les consultants de McKinsey, et présenté hier à New York par le maire républicain Michael Bloomberg, le sénateur démocrate Charles Schumer, et le gouverneur de l’état, également démocrate et nouvellement élu, Eliot Spitzer. Les trois élus ont appelé à une série de modifications législatives et réglementaires, comprenan notamment des conditions d’application moins coûteuses de la loi Sarbanes Oxley et une immigration plus ouverte aux salariés qualifiés. Le rapport, intituled "Sustaining New York’s and the US’s Global Financial Services Leadership", est le produit d’entretiens avec cinquante P-DG et plus de trois cents responsables de la finance américaine. ...