OCTO ASSET MANAGEMENT
Octo Asset Management is an independent fixed income asset management firm accredited by the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) in 2011 whose sole business is the management of fixed income funds. A subsidiary of Octo Group, a key player in the credit markets since 1991, Octo AM provides value-added fixed income portfolio management using innovative analytical tools and is guided by the Group’s two founding principles: independence and specialization.
Weekly as of 11/06/2018
Old sins have long shadows (Italian proverb)
Last week we suggested that the markets were somewhat uncompromising with respect to the Italian crisis and considered the arrival of Mr. Conte to power somewhat carelessly. But, it took only a weekend and two public statements for investor fears to be stoked and for Italian yields to head back ...
OUR FUNDS
| Perf 2018 : | -0.06 % |
| Perf 1 year : | -0.11 % |
| Perf 3 years : | 0.34 % |
| Perf 5 years : | 1.62 % |
| Since launch : | 3.76 % |
AMF Money market fund
| Perf 2018 : | -0.25 % |
| Perf 1 year : | -0.27 % |
| Perf 3 years : | 1.87 % |
| Perf 5 years : | 4.77 % |
| Since launch : | 6.34 % |
Performance calculated on A-share
| Perf 2018 : | -1.33 % |
| Perf 1 year : | -1.01 % |
| Perf 3 years : | 3.03 % |
| Perf 5 years : | 10.1 % |
| Since launch : | 25.9 % |
Performance calculated on A-share
In accordance with AMF regulation, the fund performance cannot be disclosed because of its recent history
News
Investors wonder whether the Italian crisis was just a flash in the pan
Last week was probably the worst since the volatility spikes of 2016, linked to commodity prices and their impact on mining and energy issuers, as well as high yield indices.
This time, the storm was not provoked by corporates, which for the moment are sticking to their budgets, but rather by sovereigns, as was the case in 2011-2012 with the peripherals, in 2014-2015 with Greece and in 2016 with Brexit!
As Europeans, we have a tendency to focus on International risks: US stock ...
Read more 04/06/2018
Markets question whether Italy will spark the next debt crisis
As usual, it wasn’t a single predictable spark which set the market off, rather the highly improbable scenario of three of them igniting simultaneously. Proof once again that probability models have little success in finance and that the markets may consider certain events trivial one day and significant another, depending on their moods.
Three political events unfolded thusly in the past 10 days, worrying the financial markets and the bond market in particular: cancellation of ...
Read more 28/05/2018