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BNP Paribas adds global manager to range

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... in 1979 in Dallas, Texas and has been providing value-oriented investment strategies to institutional investors, mutual funds, and family offices for the past 35 years.A Its global value equity strategy is a true traditional value portfolio concentrated ...

SSgA appoints head of intermediary business

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... financial intermediaries to deliver an array of institutional investment capabilities, offers separate accounts, mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Based in Sydney, MacNevin will be responsible for driving and executing strategy. He will ...

Flash Boys is 'complete nonsense': CMCRC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... participant. "Sure it costs a bit more money," he said, "but the same story explains why individual investors went to mutual funds in the first place - because it cost too much to trade as an individual." The comments follow reports that the US Federal ...

US retirement assets reach US$23tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... accounted for another $2.0 trillion. The employer DC market includes the US$4.2 trillion held in 401(k) plans of which mutual funds made up US$3.5 trillion or 60% of the FUM. Meanwhile, 45% of IRAs were invested into mutual funds. Target date or life ...

High frequency trading improves market fairness

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... directors' options, the price of seasoned equity issues, evaluate broker performance, calculate net asset values of mutual funds, and compute stock indices," CMCRC chief executive and co-authors of the report Professor Mike Aitken said. "So on the one ...

AMP Capital sets foot in China

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... effect 21 June 2013, allowing insurance companies in China to establish funds management companies offering public mutual funds to retail and institutional investors. "A funds management joint venture in China is a strategically significant move for ...

Abenomics strengthens investment ties with Japan

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... work. Supported by deflation, the Japanese have the highest savings rate in the world. But only 3% is invested in mutual funds. "The shear weight of capital in Japan dwarfs most other economies and Abe's measures means it will start to move," Beazley ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... of their domestic bourses. "Trading by Brazilian individuals has dropped to the lowest level since 1999...Russian mutual funds posted 16 straight months of outflows, the most since at least 1996, and withdrawals in India are the biggest in more than ...

ICI chief blasts US transaction tax legislation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... issued by the ICI noted that a 'securities transaction tax' could apply to the value of trades in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), futures and options, other derivative instruments and other securities. While a securities transaction ...

$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... the US Investment Company Institute, the bond fund inflows trounced the $153 billion that was withdrawn from equity mutual funds. Five year figures are even more astounding with US$533 billion withdrawn from equity funds, while inflows into fixed interest ...