{"id":46225,"date":"2015-11-09T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/innovation\/nomura-launches-nomura-quantam-solcap-europe-fund\/"},"modified":"2015-11-09T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T00:05:00","slug":"nomura-launches-nomura-quantam-solcap-europe-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/innovation\/nomura-launches-nomura-quantam-solcap-europe-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomura launches Nomura Quantam SolCap\u00ae Europe Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nomura announces the launch of the <strong> <em>\u201cNomura<br \/>\nQuantam SolCap\u00ae Europe Fund\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>. The fund is available to institutional investors in key<br \/>\nEuropean markets including Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the<br \/>\nUK.<\/p>\n<p>The investment objective of the fund is to offer clients long only exposure to the DJ<br \/>\nEuroStoxx 50\u00ae Total Return index with reduced tail risk. Offered in euro format, the fund<br \/>\nallows investors to gain exposure to European equities, capturing upside while reducing<br \/>\nequity drawdowns through an innovative allocation programme. The fund is backed by a<br \/>\nformal bank guarantee issued by Nomura Bank International (rated A- by S&#038;P as of October<br \/>\n2015).[[ Nomura Bank International has been rated A- by S&#038;P since January 2009]]\n<p><quote>The <strong> <em>Nomura Quantam SolCap\u00ae Europe Fund<\/em> <\/strong> addresses material concerns of high downside<br \/>\nrisks attached to equity investments, and facilitates a potential reduction of the equity capital<br \/>\ncharge at a maximum of 15 per cent under Solvency II (under standard formula) due to its<br \/>\nformal bank guarantee (Commission Solvency II Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015\/35).[[This does not constitute regulatory advice to any person and should not be used as the basis for the actual regulatory treatment of any transaction. Nomura accepts no guarantee or liability, neither explicitly nor implicitly, for the correctness of the information provided. Before any entity enters into a transaction, it should obtain independent advice.]]<\/quote><\/p>\n<p>The fund is part of the Nomura Alternative Investment Management UCITS (Undertakings for<br \/>\nCollective Investment in Transferable Securities) funds range, which provides investors with<br \/>\na broad range of investment solutions. Nomura Alternative Investment Management is<br \/>\nadvised by Quantam S.A., a quantitative asset manager based in France and the United<br \/>\nStates. Quantam has over 11 years of experience and a strong track record in systematic<br \/>\nasset management and hedging overlay strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Philippe Royer, CEO of Nomura Alternative Investment Management said: <em>\u201cThis new<br \/>\nfund was established to provide risk controlled access to European equities with a formal<br \/>\nbank guarantee for our institutional clients. It is a direct response to investors\u2019 broad-based<br \/>\ninterest in equities upside potential but with a downside risk mitigation mechanism.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paul Fulcher, Nomura\u2019s Head of Asset &#038; Liability Management solutions, EMEA, said:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cEquity exposure can be very capital intensive. The SolCap fund uses an advanced solution,<br \/>\nwhich should enhance the capital efficiency of equities under the Solvency II framework\u201c<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Max Dupont, CEO of Quantam, said: <em>\u201cQuantam is delighted to join forces with Nomura for<br \/>\nthe SolCap fund, which embeds our advanced quantitative mechanism designed to firmly<br \/>\ncap the fund&#8217;s local drawdowns using a rigorous scientific approach.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investment objective of the fund is to offer clients long only exposure to the DJ EuroStoxx 50\u00ae Total Return index with reduced tail risk. Offered in euro format, the fund allows investors to gain exposure to European equities, capturing upside while reducing equity drawdowns through an innovative allocation programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":46223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1663,1968,1651,1711,1437,1691,1952,1787,2118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}