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Banks face $5bn hit to research teams as asset managers cut spending
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… Asset managers intend to cut their analyst research budgets by 30 per cent, … investment banking industry that has already been forced to make thousands of people redundant on the back of falling …
PassiveBeat: can ETFs help you learn to love natural resources?
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… ‘An investment only a mother could love’ could apply to many asset classes and products, but in a recent paper … White and Jeremy Grantham (above) of GMO applied the slight to natural-resource equities. …
Pedro Coelho has been appointed head of UBS ETFs Spain for UBS Asset Management
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… Aviva Investors has added four senior people to its client solutions team, while Manulife has named its … chief operating officer. Aegon’s chief financial officer is to depart, with Axa Investment Managers boosting its …
Factor-based investing gains in Asia, but questions remain
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… Initial moves by Asia-based institutional investors into smart-beta equity strategies have focused on specific factors, but money managers say current and prospective clients …
Oops There Goes Another ETF: AccuShares Funds Close Down
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… Say goodbye to AccuShares’ exchange-traded funds. AccuShares Investment Management announced yesterday that it … four ETFs, bringing the number of fund closures this year to 75. …
Schwab Launches Target Date Mutual Funds Constructed With Schwab ETFs and Priced at New Industry Low
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… Schwab Target Index Funds available to retirement plans of all sizes at 8 basis points with no minimums, and to individual investors at 13 basis points with just $100 minimum. …
Dutch watchdog urges clarity on active ETFs
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… The Dutch regulator has devised a screening tool to help distributors navigate the features of smart beta and …
EDHEC seeks to debunk Top 10 misconceptions of smart beta strategies
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… Providers of smart beta investment strategies have allowed too many misconceptions to circulate about the range of investment management types they market, according to research by EDHEC-Risk Institute. …
Platforms are quite costly when it comes to trading ETFs
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… fund (ETF) desk at Peel Hunt a few years ago, he had to admit to the then-chief executive, “I don’t even know what ETFs …
Robo-advice set to grow among UK retirees
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… UK retirees are set to become big users of robo-advisers in years to come as they increasingly manage their own pension …