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UK funds industry suffers 2008 hangover
The UK funds industry is set for a ... Investors pulled a net £2.1bn (€2.4bn) from UK-domiciled ... Open-ended funds managed £362bn at the end of ... The report said: "The drop in funds under ... The IMA estimated that the entire UK funds ... The proportion of assets invested in equities dropped...
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Exchange-traded funds race ahead of rival asset classes
The exchange-traded funds industry has outpaced other types ... Over the same period, the global mutual funds ... Private equity assets under management, including both invested ... Private equity real estate assets under management, again ... Today, continuing inflows into ETFs have cemented the...
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Property veterans set to refill war chest
London & Stamford, the AIM-listed property company backed ... London & Stamford said it is raising the ... The news comes after other property companies have ... But investors were willing to back Max Property, ... The London & Stamford deal received significant attention...
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ETF assets near pre-crisis peak
Assets under management in exchange-traded funds are near ... The global ETF industry now holds $789bn (€569bn) ... The booming industry has seen assets grow at ... As a result of continuing inflows, assets in ... The news comes as traditional asset managers continue ... Financial Research Corporation, a fund research firm based...
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Mayor of London to lobby for hedge funds
London Mayor and influential Conservative politician Boris Johnson ... Speaking this morning at an event at the ... The European Commission proposed the directive in April ... Boris Johnson said this morning: "I support strong ... He added: "No other European city's financial services...
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Funds industry set for M&A 'reshaping'
The fund management industry faces its “most radical ... Jefferies Putnam Lovell, an investment banking boutique that ... Along with divestitures, it highlighted asset managers seeking ... Aaron Dorr, a New York-based managing director at ... Research by the company showed that the need...
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Financiers buoy top end of London’s property market
Estate agents claim bankers are buying £1m-plus London ... Investment bankers from Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Barclays ... Estate agents said record second-quarter profits and hefty ... Tim Wright, a partner at estate agent Knight ... Roarie Scarisbrick, a partner at Property Vision, a...
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Managers bow to client pressure over their fees
Asset managers are set to follow investment bankers ... A survey of 30 chief executives of UK ... Alain Grisay, chief executive of UK-listed fund manager ... Most mainstream asset managers rely on annual management ... One chief executive told Investit that annual fees ... Paul Trickett, European head of investment consulting at...
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Cost of rolling futures undermines ETF returns
Investors in exchange-traded funds have missed out on ... Over the quarter, the crude oil vehicle managed ... When futures prices are surging but oil is ... Daniel Wills, senior analyst at ETF Securities, said:...
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German property funds start to reopen as pressure eases
German open-ended property funds are set to turn ... The sector has been under significant pressure since ... But last Tuesday, the CS Euroreal fund – ... German investors placed a net €1.6bn in open-ended ... Iryna Pylypchuk, a senior analyst at CBRE, said ... “The other important factor to take into account...
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Debate intensifies over future of UBS Global
A revolution is taking place at UBS Global ... Following the same route as Selfridges department store ... Even BlackRock, renowned for its efficiency, only managed ... In normal times, chief executive Oswald Grübel would ... A spokeswoman said the division remains core. But...
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UK real estate holds allure
The UK property market has some of the ... Jack Foster, managing director of real estate at ... The UK commercial property market recorded positive growth ... Foster declined to name the vehicle, but said...
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Is the worst now over for UBS?
When UBS persuaded Oswald Grübel to come out ... Having helped to define investment banking and credit ... Wealthy clients were closing their accounts at a ... Five months on from Grübel’s appointment, UBS has ... Pressure from the Swiss regulator has also forced ... But some analysts are starting to suggest the...
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News Analysis: So who has the world's best pension system?
There was a blizzard of dire warnings this ... Despite the meltdown of its banks and domestic ... For a start, the amount that Icelandic pension ... The savings do not appear to have come ... Iceland's citizens are also among the most thrifty ... As in the UK, the state pension forms...
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The best of times, the worst of times: tales from the veterans of finance
JP Morgan Cazenove’s chairman David Mayhew said it ... These were just some of the responses Financial ... While Hans-Jörg Rudloff, chairman of Barclays Capital, said ... Daniel Truchi, global chief executive of SG Private ... Financial News generated the list by polling readers...
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Cheviot and Vestra move ahead in spite of crisis
Two rival UK boutique wealth management operations started ... Cheviot Asset Management, launched by Michael Kerr-Dineen and ... Cheviot Partners, its holding company, which also incorporates ... Vestra Wealth was launched by former UBS wealth ... As a result of their moves, UBS took...
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Why active management outperforms passive
There has been much speculation about active management ... While a degree of volatility is an integral ... With most active investment it is difficult to ... There have been calls for institutional investors to ... It is easy to show that money can ... However, a switch to passive management could turn...
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Fund managers on a six-year high
Fund managers are at their most optimistic about ... According to the latest Merrill Lynch Fund Manager ... Fund managers have cut back investment in low-risk ... As a result of improving sentiment, the Bank ... However, Gary Baker, head of European equity strategy ... He said: "While investors are finally overweight equities,...
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Morgan Stanley considered ditching investment arm
Morgan Stanley considered appointing a high-level asset manager ... Roger Freeman, an analyst at Barclays Capital, met ... Freeman said in a report: “Acknowledging the continued ... At a conference in February, Colm Kelleher, chief ... In its first quarter results for this year...
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Multimanagers seek control over asset allocation
As the fund management industry struggles to cope ... The growth of the sector has created competition ... A survey by Skandia found that 46% of ... However, although the outlook appears rosy, multimanagers’ ability ... The 13 manager of managers within the Investment ... Managers of managers focused on UK equities failed...
