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Investment funds target climate change
Kevin Parker isn't about to let his passion ... "I'm a devout capitalist, and there's money to ... Parker, a member of Deutsche Bank's group executive ... A believer that information breeds action, Parker's next ... The Wall Street Journal sat down with Parker ... The Wall Street Journal: You have made the...
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Analysts upgrade fund houses as markets rise
Analysts at investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods ... In a report released today, analysts Robert Lee ... They wrote: "Given the strong rebound in equity ... Affiliated Managers Group received special attention, as the ... However, the analysts added that the market rebound...
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Hedge funds covet Ucits badge
One word that encapsulates the challenge facing the ... With assets under management plunging – thanks to ... This has led to a growing interest among ... Simon Firth, a partner in the investment funds ... Jack Klinck, global head of alternative investment solutions ... First, it acts as a badge of regulatory...
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What if good times aren’t just around the corner?
Investment banking, one of the first industries to ... In past issues, Financial News has reported an ... There is renewed confidence in emerging markets – ... And if Andy Hornby, the man vilified for ... The debate about the likely path of the ... The issue is particularly acute for those banks...
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Buyout firms take $1bn hit on fees
The world’s biggest buyout firms are set to ... Large firms have succumbed to pressure to lower ... It is the lowest management fee level for ... Nick Arnott, a managing director at Preqin, said: ... He added the fee rate could drop further. ... The fee drop is due to a combination...
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How the Rolodex wins the deals at BlackRock
When your house gets flooded, you ring a ... When he left investment bank First Boston to ... Later, however, he discovered he could grow his ... The deal, which also involves the purchase of ... The Government Investment Corporation of Singapore and the ... Perhaps Fink wanted to check out Mansour's reasons...
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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 ... At the time fixed income assets accounted for ... At BlackRock, 43% of its assets were in ... At Barclays Global Investors, 53% of its assets...
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Pramerica hires property managers for UK push
Pramerica Real Estate Investors, a subsidiary of US ... A spokeswoman at UBS confirmed that Charles Crowe, ... Dennis-Jones is fund manager of the flagship £1.3bn ... The news of a new investor in the ... UBS itself lost another senior real estate manager ... UBS has set about restructuring its UK real...
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Liontrust profits plunge after 'most difficult' year
Liontrust Asset Management, the London-based funds boutique rocked ... The company's profits before tax dropped by a ... Its assets yesterday stood at £1.2bn, according to ... The news comes after investors withdrew a large ... In its statement, the company said: "The last...
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UBS parts company with head of sterling bonds
The head of sterling-denominated bonds at the asset ... Nic Barnes has resigned from UBS Global Asset ... The fund’s performance also puts it in the ... Barnes' responsibilities are being absorbed by Bob Jolly, ... UBS’ funds investing in debt across a number ... John Dugenske was appointed as head of US...
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FTSE bosses' pay rises as shareholders and workers lose out
The pay packages of the UK's 100 top ... In terms of relationship breakdown between big companies ... According to the voting agency Manifest, the average ... In the same period, average UK earnings went ... During 2008, three-quarters of chief executives received a ... Anger at perceived "rewards for failure" and board...
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Asset managers buoyed by retail inflows
Retail investors pushed billions back into funds in ... Data from fund analysts show that rising equities ... Financial Research Corporation, a financial data provider based ... Over the first four months of the year, ... In the UK, the Investment Management Association said...
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Wooing the wealthy
To paraphrase novelist Jane Austen, it has become ... A Dow Jones After The Crunch survey of ... The worth of the wealthy has fallen by ... But plenty of people have retained their wealth ... Advisory departments at several investment banks are, unusually, ... Ambitious young advisers have been quitting large firms...
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Global equity managers defy falling index
The global equity story in recent months has ... Figures collated by data provider Camradata show none ... While the highest-ranking manager declined to allow the ... A spokesman said: “We have found it very ... Investec’s Global Dynamic Fund lost only 5.14% in ... Breedon said: “We saw some pounding performance by...
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Redemptions put small funds at disadvantage to bigger peers
Large hedge funds were a safer bet than ... Small, mid-sized and large funds all fell, on ... Large funds’ outperformance last year reversed a trend ... John Long, head of UK intermediary sales at ... Last year found out which managers did not ... Meredith Jones, PerTrac’s managing director, said small funds...
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Compensation consultant predicts pay boost for traders
Bankers working in equity and fixed income will ... According to compensation consultants Johnson Associates, equities and ... However, it said the improvement in market conditions ... Nevertheless, Johnson Associates' sample of seven major investment ... In contrast, its analysis of eight public asset...
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Top duo exit Russian broker after rocky nine months
Two senior managers have left Troika Dialog after ... The chief executive of Troika Dialog’s UK business, ... Snell resigned from Troika this week but will ... Pukas, who is leaving along with two colleagues, ... His responsibilities as managing director and chief investment...
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News Analysis: Steel departs a healthy JO Hambro
Andrew Steel, the departing chief executive of JO ... Steel, who joined the group in 1994 and ... JO Hambro, which manages assets for private clients ... The 19% drop compares with an 18.2% fall ... Despite the fall in assets, the company cut ... The accounts, which were signed off in April,...
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‘Hire me, I’ll work for free’
Some laid-off workers in the financial services industry ... Christophe Chouard, head of sales at French fund ... Headhunters said redundant financial services staff, particularly those ... It is not just the prospect of cheap ... Although the fund of hedge funds industry is...
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Fund managers set for bonus cuts
Asset managers will cut bonuses in a bid ... The impact of the market fall on asset ... Fund managers are already reporting revenues between 30% ... Paul Trickett, European head of investment consulting at ... Since markets began to fall in the wake ... A spokesman for the investment consultant said it...
