Posted by admin on June 20th, 2008
The funds became UCITS III compliant earlier this year following a vote by their shareholders. They are now in the process of obtaining local market registration, which is necessary in order for them to be marketed.
Both the funds are Luxembourg-domiciled and are aimed at institutional investors and high net worth individuals, with a minimum investment [...]
Posted by admin on June 20th, 2008
Peter Lynch, the famed investor and vice chairman of Fidelity Investments, often advised to “invest in what you know.”
Maybe that’s why Francis Koenig thinks Wall Street is ready to come around to putting big money into the adult-entertainment business.
Koenig is chief executive officer and founder of AdultVest Inc., “the world’s first and only investment community [...]
Posted by admin on June 20th, 2008
Pyramis Global Advisors, the institutional unit of Fidelity Investments, said on Thursday it has hired Kevin Uebelein as president and chief executive officer.
Uebelein joins Pyramis from Prudential Financial (PRU.N: Quote, Profile, Research), where he was chief investment officer for all its international businesses for the past seven years, Pyramis said in a statement. At Pyramis [...]
Posted by admin on June 15th, 2008
With a high school degree at age 15, a college degree at 19, and a Harvard MBA at 22, media banker Lisbeth Barron got an early start on Wall Street. But after more than 20 years in the business and 11 years at Bear Stearns before its implosion, she wasn’t just looking for a place [...]
Posted by admin on June 11th, 2008
Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, today announced that Ark Asset Management Co., Inc. (Ark), a leading investment management firm in the institutional marketplace, will transition its installation of the Eagle investment management suite, which is currently managed in-house, to [...]
Posted by admin on May 17th, 2008
Active extension strategies, which are relatively new to institutional investors, are already in use or are under consideration by more than half of public defined contribution plans and one-third of corporate plans, based on responses to a new research study. The research was sponsored by RiverSource Investments, LLC, a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc., (NYSE: [...]
Posted by admin on May 9th, 2008
Finance Minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf said yesterday that the Kingdom is setting up an SR20 billion investment firm that may be open to partners. The company will draw its capital from the General Investment Fund and would offer attractive opportunities in the Kingdom with low risks to foreign investors.
Speaking at the inauguration of the Euromoney Saudi [...]
Posted by admin on April 14th, 2008
Fidelity International is planning to cut staff and crimp costs despite steady investment performances, as UK fund managers batten down the hatches in expectation of tougher times brought on by the credit crunch.
Fidelity said this morning it was looking “across the business” at making savings, which may or may not include redundancies or choosing not [...]
Posted by admin on March 30th, 2008
By Jonathan Stempel and Dan Wilchins
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (C.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is cutting about 2,000 more investment banking and trading jobs, a person briefed on the matter said, as the largest U.S. bank moves to lower costs after subprime mortgage and credit problems led to a record [...]
Posted by admin on March 30th, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Lehman Brothers (LEH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) fell
by nearly 10 percent in early New York trading on Thursday on
rumors that the fourth largest U.S. investment bank could see a
run on the bank similar to what happened to Bear Stearns
(BSC.N: Quote, Profile, Research), traders said.
Declines [...]