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Medcraft sticks up for asset managers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... crisis net outflows from funds were too small to impact the broader market. "This reflects the fact that investors in mutual funds are - by nature and definition - in it for the long haul and take short term fluctuations in their stride," he continued. ...

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 ...

India mutual funds reach A$149bn

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... conclude over the next 12 months will focus the attention of Australian money managers on India's AUD$149 billion mutual funds market. According to a report released earlier this year by KPMG, the Indian funds market has had sluggish growth of 3.2% pa ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... When this occurs, the market experiences increased selling 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 ...

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 ...