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Henderson not alone in mulling tax move
Henderson Global Investors is not the only asset ... Henderson, one of London's largest listed asset management ... These deferments allowed it to pay a tax-rate ... However, at the time of its report Roger ... Henderson is not the only company to have ... Others to have mulled it include Aberdeen Asset...
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Meteoric ETF growth suddenly halts
The meteoric rise in exchange-traded funds has slowed ... At the beginning of the year, investors held ... The sudden fall follows growth of 41% in ... The latest figures come from research published by ... The global fall was concentrated in equity ETFs, ... Marc Knowles, head of product management at iShares...
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HSBC reshuffles multi-manager team
HSBC Global Asset Management has named a new ... Guy Morrell, head of the unit's real estate ... Morrell replaces James Hughes, who is relocating to ... The changes comes on the back of several ... Wagner Araujo, the head of HSBC Multimanager in ... Both Morrell and Hughes report to Joanna Munro,...
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Asset managers take short term view on performance
Investment professionals at over two thirds of US ... The report by consultants Cerulli Associates is based ... Benjamin Poor, a director at Cerulli, warned: "Short-termism ... "Compensating employees based on longer term performance rewards ... The report, titled Best Practices for Portfolio Management...
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Jupiter revenues rise in turbulent year
London funds house Jupiter reported a rise in ... Jupiter Unit Trust Management, which looks after Jupiter's ... The rise in revenues coincided with a rise ... Revenue at Jupiter Asset Management Limited, the part ... The figures were published in accounts filed at ... Jupiter Asset Management is led by Edward Bonham-Carter,...
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European selloff ends as buyers return
Fund flows into European equities have turned positive ... According to UBS analysis of clients' trading, institutional ... UBS said that the net selling seen in ... The analysis was made from the Swiss bank's ... Broken down by sector, UBS found that energy ... Consumer staples and financial sector stocks have seen...
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Credit Suisse thinks the very rich can help it surpass UBS
Ten years ago Credit Suisse was the most ... Compared with UBS, Credit Suisse is relatively unscathed ... Credit Suisse is renowned for its One Bank ... It is convinced this appeals to the growing ... A Credit Suisse spokesman said: “We’re seeing attractive ... Credit Suisse’s revenue has surged following the launch...
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Market-listed funds continue to attract the attention of investors
Hedge funds and funds of funds have raised ... Mark James, executive director at UK bank Royal ... The money has mainly been invested by institutions, ... Managers such as Financial Risk Management and Marshall ... He said: “There is not much incentive for ... The fact that shares in closed-end funds can...
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JP Morgan Private Bank increases allocations to alternatives
In less than five years, at current progress, ... Nick White, international head of alternatives, said equity ... Weightings in hedge funds, private equity and real ... These weightings relate to mandates where clients have ... Many of the bank’s clients are ultra wealthy....
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Brevan Howard tops hedge fund table
Europe’s 10 largest hedge fund managers have taken ... UK global macro fixed-income manager Brevan Howard Asset ... All but one of Europe’s largest 10 hedge ... Nicola Meaden, chief executive of investment consultancy Dumas ... Brevan Howard dethroned AHL, the computer-driven investment system...
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Billionaire to build fund manager team
South African billionaire Johann Rupert plans to create ... According to documents filed with the restructuring of ... The team will advise Reinet, which is set ... Rupert wants Reinet to take advantage of cheap ... He told the Wall Street Journal: “Everyone is ... Reinert’s supervisory board will comprise Yves-André Istel, senior...
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Arch revenues increase as other firms struggle
The alternative investments boutique Arch Group, founded by ... Farrell, formerly the global head of alternative investments ... Arch Financial Products reported a jump in revenues ... Operating profit for the year was £11.8m, according ... Farrell, Arch’s chief executive, said: “The growth has...
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Gartmore plugs CIO gap
Gartmore Investment Management has appointed a new chief ... Gartmore has hired Dominic Rossi, previously head of ... His appointment ends a protracted search for a ... A spokesman for Gartmore said the company had ... Jeff Meyer, president and chief executive officer, who...
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Commodity-based funds earning favour
Investors have taken to commodity exchange-traded funds, but ... Most stock indexes weight companies based on market ... To take one example: the iShares S&P GSCI ... As a result, this ETF has shot the ... Other commodity index funds have splits that lie ... Commodity ETFs and their close cousins, exchange-traded notes,...
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Baring Asset Management restructures Pacific fund
Baring Asset Management has converted its Pacific Fund ... About 80% of the Baring Asean Frontiers Fund ... The Irish-domiciled fund, with an expected portfolio of...
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UK bond investors bullish despite high inflation
Economists and bond fund managers expect a downturn ... The Bank of England announced today that UK ... At first glance, the announcement is further bad ... According to UK consultants Pension Capital Strategies, the ... Graeme Caughey, head of government bonds at Scottish...
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Billionaire's hedge fund makes £150m
US billionaire Louis Bacon has registered a slight ... MECM, which published its annual results at Companies ... US-born Bacon, who lives in London, made his ... Revenues at MECM, from performance and management and...
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Trader lands $300m to stay put at Fortress
Eager to keep one of its key employees, ... Levinson, who also is the chief investment officer ... Fortress has struggled mightily in its 18 months ... Levinson's windfall - which was alluded to in ... But public firms also answer to shareholders, who ... In a research note Thursday, Citigroup analyst Prashant...
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European managers lose €400bn of assets
The top 20 European asset managers had more ... The companies managed €10.34 trillion at the beginning ... The data includes insurance assets, but excludes wealth ... Three firms in Europe manage more than €1 ... The European asset management industry has been affected...
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UK assets rise to £3.8 trillion
UK asset managers looked after about £3.8 trillion ... Respondents to the survey comprised members of the ... The statistics suggest a modest move in the ... The report backs up analysis by UK consultant ... The IMA survey also found that equities holdings ... The survey found that there was not a...
