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Mutual funds gain record flows

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... Equity and bond funds in the US attracted over $300 billion in the first half of this year -the best net flows in mutual funds for more than two years, according to a report. The Strategic Insight global mutual fund database shows 85 long-term products ...

Corporate governance needs national voice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... said. "The institutional groups that exist are investment management associations and may be there to simply market mutual funds, they hardly talk about corporate governance at all and they're very conflicted."

J.P. Morgan wins Capital mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... J.P. Morgan has won a mandate with fund manager Capital International Research to provide services for the group's mutual funds recently launched to Australian and New Zealand investors. J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services will provide global custody ...

Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... funds they manage that is sufficient to assess whether any fund poses a threat to financial stability." Regulation of mutual funds will also be reviewed with a view to making them less susceptible to runs. A by-product of the regulatory expansion however ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... alternatives. It will also offer clients diversified access to global markets through separate accounts, common trust funds, mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, and closed-end funds. Barclay's ETF platform iShares currently has over $367 billion of AUM ...

BNP increases stake in Indian mega broker

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... Investors as a leading online broker in Europe, to rapidly develop its online trading business and the marketing of mutual funds and life insurance," he said. Olivier Le Grand, head of BNP Paribas Investors, said India will emerge as a powerhouse economy ...

Mutual funds outperform instos

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Mutual funds are beating their institutional counterparts with the former reporting almost 30 per cent less outflows during last year. According Callan Associates, institutional asset losses were "extensive" across 17 traditional equity and fixed income ...

US fixed interest SRI beats market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... while traditional funds earned -6.3 per cent, their SRI equivalents earned -2 per cent. "In fact, socially conscious mutual funds have held their ground over the last ten years. SRI fixed-income funds outperformed other fixed-income mutual funds in five ...

ETF assets to reach $1.6 trillion

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... with institutions, including pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, foundations, proprietary trading desks, and mutual funds. Meanwhile between 50 per to 60 per cent of ETF assets reside with retail users, including financial advisors and the direct ...

Dow Jones launches Islamic ASEAN index

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... as underlying for financial products such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), or as a benchmark for actively managed mutual funds. The index has been licensed to Malaysia-based Corston-Smith Asset Management to be used as the basis for a long-only corporate ...