Portfolio Risk Management

Former FTSE Russell and MSCI executive brings extensive experience in index and analytics sales to Qontigo.

Axioma announced today the appointment of Amaury Dauge as President. Dauge will also continue to serve as Chief Financial Officer, a position he has held since joining Axioma in June 2016.

September 2018 marked the tenth anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse, an event that epitomizes the traumatic happenings of 2008.

Equity markets struggled in June, led by Europe and emerging economies, as US barriers on imports raised concerns that a trade war is unfolding.

The violent market pullbacks that many traders had gotten used to living without are back. The STOXX® Global 1800 Index plunged 7.5%1 between Feb. 2 and Feb. 8, its steepest five-day decline since August 2015.

The synchronized growth witnessed in 2017 is expected to continue this year, according to economists, who say markets can weather the gradual normalization of monetary policy.

Despite the Fed’s and the ECB’s divergent trajectories, the dollar fell against the euro to $1.18 in December from $1.05 in January, confounding expectations. At the start of 2017, the average forecast from five banks pointed to the euro ending the year at $1.05.