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Week 1 March 2015: People On the Move – Asset Management
” Magnus Spence has resigned as chief executive of Dalton Strategic Partnership, the $2bn asset management boutique that he co-founded with Andrew Dalton in 2002. Mr Spence is expected to return to...
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Lobbying: Fidelity, Vanguard, Citadel and BlackRock splash
Lobbying is big business in the US. It’s impossible to fathom a business of a significant size not investing a substantial sum of their money in this practice. In the last year, Fidelity Investments...
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Asset Management: race to keep interest rate low damaging for Economy
Bill Gross, a known name in the world of investing thanks to Pimco, one of the largest bond managers in the world, has claimed that there’s a war of currency being waged, that slashing interest rates...
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Week 9 March 2015: People On the Move – Asset Management
“C Chris Kaashoek is returning to his old stomping ground, Kempen Capital Management, as senior portfolio manager for Kempen’s global small-cap team. Since ending his first stint at Kempen, Mr Kaashoek...
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Week 16 March 2015: People On the Move – Asset Management
“C Seyi Owodunni has moved to Emerging Capital Partners, the pan-African private equity firm, as managing director of the Nigeria office. Mr Owodunni joins from Kingdom Africa Management, a rival...
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Future Uncertain for Swiss Private Banks
Switzerland’s private banks and wealth managers are under increasing pressure after the recent appreciation of the currency. After the Swiss National Bank decided to abandon the euro cap on the Swiss...
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Week 23 March 2015: People On the Move – Asset Management
“C Loomis Sayles has promoted Kevin Charleston to chief executive from his previous role as president of the $240bn Boston-based fixed income manager. Mr Charleston succeeds Robert Blanding who will...
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Vanguard ex CEO: “ETF fine if you don’t trade them”
No less an investor than John “Jack” Bogle, creator of the highly popular commercial trading giant Vanguard, is giving the exchange traded fund a run for its running. Mr. Bogle does not question that...
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The Future of Investment Research
Investment Research is an important function of investment decision making. However, over the last few years this function has come under increasing pressure. First, in the early 2000s banks were...
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Investor Psychology: “How beliefs and behavior sabotage success in the...
The Instinct to Fail Human beings, no matter how intelligent, tend to make similar mistakes. Because our brains are pattern seeking systems we often see patterns where they don’t exist. This is easier...
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