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Elite investing strategies ready for download

... categories such as market capitalisation, style, bond maturity, and quality. The company also ranks the most popular mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) including details on account size, asset class, domicile, and other details. While their ...

Opportunities in China twice that of India: survey

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
... joint ventures are not the only way. "Although 67 per cent thought joint ventures were the best ways to access Asian mutual funds market, it is interesting that 36 per cent feel it best to enter the market on their own," revealed the survey. But respondents ...

Morningstar buys S&P managed fund data business

... own Standard & Poor's fund data and related products covering more than 135,000 managed investment vehicles such as mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), hedge funds, and offshore funds. S&P will retain its ratings business but will get their historical ...

Past performance still a bad future indicator: S&P

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
Standard & Poor's (S&P) latest persistence scorecard for mutual funds in the US continues to show very few funds managed to consistently repeat top-half or top-quartile performance. According to the scorecard over the five years ending December 2006 ...

Reuters crosses data wires with DSTi

... DSTi's US-based parent group, DST Systems Inc posted US$2.51 billion in revenues last year and provides IT to 8,000 mutual funds and over 102 million accounts. In Australia, the local subsidiary offers IT solutions to more than 80 per cent of the funds ...

PIS expands footprint into Canada

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2006
... Financial Corporation (GFC). PIS has received GFC shareholder approval for the deal which now needs to be approved by the Mutual Funds Dealers of Canada. PIS is aiming to expand the GFC operation, which currently has 107 planners and operates in five ...

SEC hits fraudulent insurer with $790m penalty

... practices. They would hide their identities or create fictitious names for themselves and their customers to evade mutual funds' prospectus limitations on market timing. These activities raised fund transaction costs and increased their commissions at ...

Big tax hits drive after-tax reporting

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2006
... the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), regulated funds reporting in 2002. Since then the SEC has required mutual funds to disclose in their prospectuses after-tax returns in three ways: on a one, five and ten year basis; on a before-tax return ...

One-third of US investors do not read their prospectus: ICI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2006
... research, conducted in February 2006 from an in-home survey of 737 randomly selected investors who currently held mutual funds, show that despite the growing amount of information fund managers and pension funds are presenting to investors, around 70 ...

Dow Jones launches Aussie dividend index

... performance of the 30 highest dividend-yielding companies in Australia and is designed to be the underlying index for mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). "Traditionally, Australian companies are known for high dividend payouts. The Dow Jones ...