07/30/2012
The Franklin Brazil Opportunities fund will be run by the company’s international CIO Stephen Dover, which he will co-manage alongside Sao Paulo-based duo Marco Freire and Frederico Sampaio, who form a core part of the company’s Brazilian asse
07/30/2012
The funds include the Euro Asset Management, Sterling Total Return Bond, Dollar Total Return Bond, Americas Equity, Japan Equity fund.
07/30/2012
The exchange said Natixis Commodity Markets will operate as a Category 2 broker from Monday, meaning it will no longer be able to trade as a Category 1 member taking part in the open-outcry ring trading.
07/29/2012
The multi-strategy equity fund can take both long and short positions and make use of other hedging strategies.
07/29/2012
Since the crisis kicked off in 2009, covered bonds have achieved a kind of gold standard in the bank funding world.
07/29/2012
Multi-manager switches more than £100m into futures and out of exchange traded funds in a bid to reduce fees.
07/29/2012
Dexia Asset Management declined to comment and the two Chinese firms were unavailable.
07/29/2012
Rob Halliday-Stein, who founded the company with £10,000 in January 2009, is looking at the possibilities of selling to a larger rival or floating on the London Stock Exchange’s junior Aim market.
07/29/2012
The arm is now valued at £1bn.
07/26/2012
The fund will have offices in London and Asia.
07/26/2012
The 1.1 billion pound Church of England (CoE) Pensions Board has backed Winton Capital, Bridgewater Associates and BlackRock Advisors to help boost the retirement income for over 32,000 of its clergy and lay workers.
07/26/2012
Fund flows to European funds continue to reflect the ongoing eurozone crisis and its attendant market turbulence.
07/26/2012
Caixabank SA , Spain's third-biggest lender by market value, said Friday its first-half net profit sank 80% as it set aside a big chunk of income to cover losses on its real estate assets.
07/26/2012
UK Asset Resolution Limited which incorporates Bradford & Bingley plc and Northern Rock plc today issued its half year results for the six months ended 30 June 2012.
07/26/2012
Retail investors tend to automatically dismiss closed-ended funds when it comes to selecting a multi-asset portfolio, but the are some good options in the space.
07/25/2012
‘These half-year results show a continuation of what we delivered in the first quarter: significant balance sheet reshaping and another resilient performance against a backdrop of economic challenges and a lack of public confidence in our industry.
07/25/2012
The G20 countries agreed just after the collapse of U.S bank Lehman Brothers in 2008, in which opaque derivatives played a part, that dealers should clear contracts where possible to aid transparency.
07/25/2012
At present, the Coeli Power Surge fund trades exclusively on the NASDAQ OMX Commodities exchange.
07/25/2012
The decline is a result of setting aside EUR 1,304 million for provisions for real estate exposure in Spain of the second quarter ordinary profit of EUR 1,404 million.
07/24/2012
“There’s a general tendency to move toward lower-capital, fee-based models so that might explain the appeal for strategic buyers,” said Matthias de Wit, a Brussels-based analyst at Petercam SA. “Still, it’s a tricky market to