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Even simple funds pose risks: IMF

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
Even simple investment funds, including long only mutual funds, can pose financial stability risks, warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The international body's recent update to its Global Financial Stability Report offered five policy messages ...

State Street appoints APAC head to global committee

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... policy making group, is Gunjan Kedia, who heads the company's investment servicing capabilities in the Americas for mutual fund, insurance and institutional clients. "These promotions to our senior-most leadership team reflect the considerable contributions ...

Threadneedle set for name change

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... Columbia has assets under management of US$358 billion (at 30 Sept 2014) and is the 11th largest manager of long-term mutual fund assets in the US. Together, Threadneedle and Columbia have US$505 billion in assets under management across developed and ...

FoFA opt-in to cause advisers biggest headache

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... operates. We're waiting for direction from ASIC and the FPA. It's a wait and see again." Pierre Ong of Victoria Teachers Mutual Fund said: "It's pretty frustrating. It only came out yesterday and we'll know more about it when the dust settles, but it's ...

India mutual funds reach A$149bn

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata account for 74% of funds under management. The five largest mutual fund managers are HDFC Mutual, Reliance, ICICI Prudential, Birla Sun Life and UTI which hold a combined 53% of the market. BlackRock ...

Active management under threat from smart ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... platforms and brokers access is making it even easier for people to invest on their own. "I wouldn't want to be running a mutual fund company in the US," Blitzer finished.

BlackRock opens global fixed income fund to local investors

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... income core or core plus strategies Although new to the Australian market, the FIGO strategy has been in place in a US mutual fund since 2010. "FIGO was established in response to investors' desire to diversify their bond portfolios away from traditional ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... pressure, and thus an overall decline." "As well, many mutual funds experience their fiscal yearend in September. Mutual fund managers, on average, typically sell losing positions before yearend, and this trend is another possible explanation for the ...

Henderson set to acquire US fund manager Geneva

MARK SMITH AND AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... Henderson said its North American business continues to grow rapidly, doubling its AUM since 2011. "In May 2014, the US mutual fund range reached $US10 billion for the first time, with net inflows of $US1.4 billion in the year to date," the firm said. ...

BNP Paribas adds global manager to range

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has expanded its global strategy capability, adding a US-based global value equity manager to its range. The asset manager has inked an exclusive deal to distribute global value equity specialist, Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney ...