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Gatekeepers Put Active Mega Funds Under the Microscope
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… More of the industry’s assets have become concentrated into fewer mutual funds, making it more difficult for funds further down the food chain to fight for attention and assets, according to new research …
AMF warns against relaxing Ucits marketing rules
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… France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers has warned that national regulators’ power to supervise the marketing activities of cross-border funds …
Amundi embarks on physical ETF drive
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… Amundi, Europe’s largest listed asset manager, is to expand its offering of exchange traded funds that use physical replication in an attempt to boost its ETF business with European retail investors. …
SIFMA AMG Comments On The FSB Consultation On Asset Management Activities
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… SIFMA’s Asset Management Group (“SIFMA AMG”) today submitted comments to the Financial Stability Board (“FSB”) regarding the FSB’s Proposed Policy Recommendations to Address Structural Vulnerabilities from Asset Management …
Lux regulator meets UK firms for Brexit talks
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… The Luxembourg regulator has met with “a number of large institutions” from the UK to discuss the implications of Brexit on their ability to continue doing business in the European single market. …
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 … beginning to consider a broader range of factors and how to combine them. …
Oops There Goes Another ETF: AccuShares Funds Close Down
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… Say goodbye to AccuShares’ exchange-traded funds. AccuShares Investment … four ETFs, bringing the number of fund closures this year to 75. …