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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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Diamond set for £4.7m windfall as CVC seals iShares buyout
sale of its iShares a ... Barclays, which would provide a $3.1bn (€2.3bn) debt...
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Asset management M&A dips in Q1
Mergers and acquisitions in the asset management sector ... Analysts at Jefferies Putnam Lovell, who track M&A ... There was a big jump in the value ... In a statement accompanying the figures, Aaron Dorr, ... exchange-traded funds business, iShares, which is a unit of the asset manageme...
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CVC in exclusive talks with Barclays on iShares
exchange-traded funds business iShares, people familiar with t ... The price is around £3bn (€3.2bn) and doesn't ... The deal, expected to be completed by the ... Other bidders for iShares included a group comprising ... -By Marietta Cauchi and Ragnhild Kjetland , Dow...
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Barclays close to selling iShares division
to selling ... Bidders include Goldman Sachs, a consortium comprising Bain...
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Goldman enters bidding fray for iShares
an offer for iS ... with Barclays about iShares....
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