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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 ...

Bravura partners with StorLife

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
... StorLife will be used in Bravura's Rufus Global Transfer Agency system which tracks the accounts of investors in mutual funds, equities, cash and hedge funds. "The StorLife proposition replaces a legacy Write Once Read Many secure data storage system ...

Optimum hires RBC Dexia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... to pension funds, corporations, insurance companies, foundations, religious orders, professional associations and mutual funds as well as to individuals.

Perennial bears the bear

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... example, Thomas said that during the 2002 bear market, US investors withdrew over US$50 billion out of US equity mutual funds. But the panic selling couldn't have happened at the worst time because the record outflows coincided with the very month that ...

US Senate passes bail-out 74 to 25

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... to the Senate may anger Congressional Democrats. The hiatus over the bill has lead to widespread outflows from US mutual funds. Investors withdrew almost A$25 billion from US equity mutual funds and A$30 billion from bond funds in September, 12 times ...

PE firms gobble Lehman Bros AM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... is a broad suite of products including high net worth, separately managed accounts, institutional, fixed income, mutual funds and alternative assets including private equity. Bain Capital Partners and Hellman & Friedman have committed to an all-equity ...

Game on for sustainability

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... Research (CAER) assess companies. Oulton said the FTSE4Good indices are used across a range of structured products and mutual funds across the world.

US and Aus open equities borders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... John O'Shaughnessy, IFSA deputy chief executive. He said the arrangement would make it easier US pension funds and mutual funds to invest in Australia and vice versa. The agreement is another example of the government's commitment to develop Australia ...