France

FRANCE - BNP Paribas Asset Management has appointed Gilles Glicenstein head of asset management and chairman of BNP PAM SAS, the firm's main asset management arm, effective June 1.

FRANCE - Typical institutional investors with a strict focus on risk management driven by liability constraints should ideally allocate a "significant fraction" of their portfolio to structured investment strategies, says Edhec.

FRANCE - The e16bn Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) has selected BFinance to assist with its upcoming tender for SRI managers.

FRANCE - The pension system of the Banque de France (BdeF) has been condemned by the Cour de Comptes, a body which oversees the management of France's public sector organisations.

FRANCE - AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) and BNP Paribas Asset Management have launched the first tracker in their new joint range of ETFs on Euronext.

FRANCE - The e16bn Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) has said that it will actively participate in improving corporate governance of the issuers that it invests in by ensuring that its shareholder rights are "systematically exercised" in issuer...

FRANCE - The e16bn Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) is tendering for financial consultants with experience in private equity and socially responsible investment (SRI) to advise on two future specialist manager searches.

FRANCE - AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) and BNP Paribas Asset Management have pooled forces to develop a new range of ETFs to be sold under the EasyETF brand.

FRANCE - The e19.2bn Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) has said that it will actively participate in improving corporate governance of the issuers that it invests in by ensuring that its shareholder rights are "systematically exercised" in issuer...

FRANCE - Mellon Global Investments Limited, the international distribution subsidiary of Mellon Financial Corporation, has appointed Anne-Laure Frischlander sales executive for France.