Monthly Newsletter

Monthly Newsletter   Jim Rogers (1) wrote it: there is no better way of finding attractive investment opportunities than discovering the world as it is, kilometre by kilometre! This is easy to say, but for a French investor, wandering through the narrow streets of the Dharavi shantytown in Mumbai is a parti... Read the rest

Monthly Newsletter   Which investor has not dreamed of arriving at the office with a copy of tomorrow's newspaper? No matter how exciting it sounds, prior knowledge of certain data does not necessarily lead to the smartest investments. Indeed, whoever knew in advance that earnings reported by CAC40 compani... Read the rest

Monthly Newsletter   The letter (1) sent on the 8th of February by Maurice Taylor, Chairman of Titan to Arnaud Montebourg, the French minister of Productive Recovery sums up the gulf separating American free thought from the French politico-economic environment. The all-out attack by this American self-made... Read the rest

Monthly Newsletter   "Within our mandate the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough." These words pronounced by Mario Draghi last summer marked a major turning point in the life of financial markets in 2012. Whereas, beforehand the euro's days were number... Read the rest

Monthly Newsletter   During the Mad Cow crisis in the early 1990s, the French government decided to give French beef a reassuring "VBF" label (Viande Bovine Française) in view of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy epizootic affecting British cows. Certifying the origins and traceability of rump- steaks an... Read the rest

Monthly Newsletter   In the early 1990s, a famous French bank transformed this slogan into an aggressive development strategy. Its will to lend to anyone and everyone led the venerable establishment to the brink of bankruptcy a few years later in view of the recession, the downturn in the property market and... Read the rest

Monthly Newsletter   Collective well-being and individual interest do not always go hand in hand. This spontaneous assertion is illustrated perfectly in the famous "prisoner's dilemma" formalised in 1950 by US mathematician Albert Tucker who was head of the Princeton University Maths department for 20 years.... Read the rest

Monthly Newsletter   In 1963, the Paris stock exchange created a segment dedicated to stocks in the Franc zone. Aimed at housing companies located in the former French colonies such as Dahomey (currently Benin), Haute Volta (Burkina Faso) and Gabon, this market segment inluded 33 share issuers on the officia... Read the rest

Monthly Newsletter   From "ZIRP" to "NIRP" - just one small step that our Anglo-US friends have not hesitated to take! These acronyms strangely resemble the onomatopoeias of cartoon stories but actually stand for extremely serious interest rate strategies implemented by central banks in recent years. The "Z... Read the rest

Monthly Newsletter   Year after year, the success of the NISSAN brand has been confirmed throughout the world (4.8 million vehicles sold in 2011) and during 2011/2012, the Japanese carmaker expects further sales growth of 10%. While this clearly benefits RENAULT, its key shareholder (43.4%), the success has ... Read the rest