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Credit Suisse brings in new ETF chief for Europe drive
Credit Suisse has hired a new head of ... Credit Suisse Asset Management has hired Dan Draper ... His hire follows CSAMs expansion of its ETF ... Oliver Schupp, head of beta strategies in asset ... business development at iShares, a division of Barclays ...
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Investec maintains growth momentum
Investec Asset Management is owned by a bank ... Its performance in adversity suggests Investec’s managers look ... One investment banker said: “Investec Asset Management has ... The development of brand strength is highly valued ... anager exposure is to iShares, where it invests $800m....
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Exchange-traded market may reach $1.4 trillion
Exchange-traded funds and related products could grow to ... Three quarters of assets held in these products ... The industry accounted for $1.1 trillion of assets ... Deutsche Bank's figures imply that, given bullish equities ... x-trackers. BlackRock owns iShares, the world's largest provider by as...
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Watson Wyatt warns investors over ETF use
One of the largest investment consultancies in the ... Exchange-traded funds have boomed in popularity since the ... However, Watson Wyatt said that while ETFs are ... chief executive of iShares, the largest provider of ETFs in the world - ... sales strategy a...
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Time for thrift in fund fees
Research into fees charged by asset managers has ... Ed Moisson, head of consulting at information provider ... He said: "While it may be that investors ... funds. For example, BlackRock/iShares, DWS/db x-trackers, HSBC, Société Générale/Lyxor and UBS....
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Why the Rich Like These Bare-Bones Products
followed by the iShares S&P Growth Index (IVW); the iShares S&P 500 Value Index (IVE); the iShares S&P MidCap 400 Growth Index (IJK), and WisdomTree SmallCap Earnings (EES). This group makes up 76% of the aggressive portfolio, supplemented by 22% in sector and internationa...
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ETF assets hit all-time high...again
Exchange-traded fund assets hit a record for the ... The global ETF industry managed $934bn at the ... The news marks a continuing resurgence for the ... She removed the prediction when markets plunged last ... Barclays' own ETF provider iShares remains the largest...
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ETFs back on course to hit $1 trillion this year
Assets held in exchange-traded funds hit a new ... The global industry managed $891bn at the end ... Emerging market equities ETFs have been the most ... Debbie Fuhr, global head of ETF research and ... The news marks a resurgence in confidence for ... Barclays' own ETF provider iShares remains the dominant...
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Artio flotation may trigger race for IPOs
Artio Global Investors may be named after a ... Other asset managers, and their owners, will be ... “I’m not sure I’ve got a long list ... exchange-traded funds provider iShares, then for its parent, p ... een possible to float iShares. It cert...
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Barclays' Jenkins will go it solo
Roger Jenkins, a high-profile executive for Barclays who ... Jenkins, executive chairman of investment banking and investment ... He plans to set up his own deal-advisory ... Jenkins, a 51-year-old Scotland native, was the point ... cash by selling iShares, a unit of the bank's gian...
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The funds that private banks prefer
Just when wealthy individuals thought it was safe ... Most investors are content to graze gently on ... Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management tips the Nevsky ... t particularly likes the iShares Dollar Corporate Bond fund. ... energy and likes iShares Nuclear funds. Bank Sarasi...
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Barclays to book £5.3bn gain from BGI sale
Barclays said today that it expects to book ... The UK bank said it has agreed to ... the BGI division iShares to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners for £3bn. ... Barclays said CVC has until next Thursday to ... If the BlackRock deal goes ahead, Barclays said...
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News Analysis: How the world's largest asset manager will shape up
BlackRock and BGI are set to merge, creating ... The two asset managers are primarily focused on ... Combining the two companies' assets, based on their ... hange-traded funds through its iShares business, most of which is held in index-tracking equities ETFs, according t...
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Comment: Banks and managers get ready to divorce
In years gone by, banks and insurers viewed ... Asset managers, heavily outvoted in conglomerate boardrooms, are ... Retail investors have become an endangered species, reluctant ... sale of its iShares ETF unit would provide sufficient support to its capital ratios....
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Star equity manager believes ETFs are the answer for the wealthy
Alan Miller, the former investment chief of New ... His boutique, Spencer-Churchill Miller Private, will look after ... Deborah Fuhr, head of ETF research and implementation ... its ETF promoter iShares, although it is also talking to US manager Blac...
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CVC deal in doubt as Barclays courts BlackRock over sale of BGI
h CVC to sell iShares, according to a report in The Times, London. ... BGI being one of the biggest money managers...
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Interest seen for BGI unit of Barclays
Barclays is in talks to possibly sell its ... BlackRock and others are considering bids for the ... division of BGI, iShares, to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners. The iShares deal allows ... higher offers for iShares from bidders including buyout...
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Barclays receives counter-offers for iShares
two counter-bids f ... Apax, BC Partners and Hellman & Friedman have...
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The Other Shoe
AMERICANS IN THE PAST TWO YEARS have been ... But all the while, another important part of ... You can get a good idea of the ... But the commercial-property sector remains fraught with peril. ... exchange-traded funds, including iShares DJ U.S. Real Estate (IYR), which yields ...
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Barclays to entertain offers for entire asset management arm
increased offer for iShares, the exchange-traded funds arm it agreed to sell last week for £3bn, according to a report in The Sunday Telegraph, London. ... Analysts feel that suitors would need to submit...
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