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Fund Firms to Shun Low-cost Centres: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Fund managers will overlook eastern European countries when seeking domiciles for funds once an EU directive for cross-border consolidation is in place, despite potential cost savings, a study published Monday said.Fund managers preparing for the UCITS IV directive, due to come into force in 2011, said...; Tags: Asset, Directive, European Union, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Fund Manager, Grand-duchy; News items 2009-10-25
Is Your Mutual Fund Ripping You Off?: Do you find it hard to get worked up about a mere 0.5 percent in expenses on your mutual fund? If so, you're playing right into your fund manager's hands. But what you might not realize is that seemingly small differences expense ratios can lead to very large differences in...; Tags: Mutual Fund, Fund Manager, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Patrick McDevitt; Blog posts 2009-04-13
Short India Is a Perfect Emerging Market Trade: Rakesh Saxena submits: American fund managers investing in the emerging markets today are fundamentally assuming that, over a given time horizon, profits from equity investments will far exceed losses from currency devaluations. That assumption needs to be contextualized in the reality that, if investments in emerging markets like India were...; Tags: Equity Investment, Emerging Market, Fund Manager, Equity, Seeking Alpha, Rakesh Saxena, Financial Services, Investment, Marketing Research, Mutual Funds, Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, India; External links 2008-10-29
Investment Restrictions and Contagion in Emerging Markets: This paper analyzes an optimal portfolio rebalancing by a fund manager in response to a "volatility shock" in one of the asset markets, under sufficiently realistic assumptions about the fund manager's performance criteria and investment restrictions; and to analyze the sensitivity of the equilibrium price of an asset to shocks...; Tags: Asset, Volatility, IMF, Emerging Market, Fund Manager, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations; White papers 2005-09-01
IRS Launches New Reporting for 2004: The Internal Revenue Service IRS has launched new and revised forms for 2004 in order to further the goals of recent IRS policy initiatives. Many fund managers will need to comply with the recently released Form 8858, an information return affecting foreign disregarded entities. In addition, all fund managers will...; Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Fund Manager, Internal Revenue Service, Business Structures, Finance; White papers 2005-01-01

Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep: This paper develops a performance evaluation approach in which a fund manager's skill is judged by the extent to which the manager's investment decisions resemble the decisions of managers with distinguished performance records. The proposed performance measures use historical returns and holdings of many funds to evaluate the performance of...; Tags: Harvard Business School, Performance, Fund Manager, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2004-05-21
Investable Hedge Fund Indices: An Assessment and Review: Investable Hedge Fund Indices have grown in numbers since the first meaningful introduction of these during 2003. While making their presence wide spread through a number of main providers, investors have been left with the task of considering whether or not IHFI's achieve in practice a better if not outright...; Tags: Hedge Fund, Fund Manager, Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2004-11-16
Mutual Funds and Portfolio Turnover: This article addresses two questions about portfolio turnover. First, are fund managers on average turning over their portfolios more frequently than in the past? Some commentators suggest an answer that uses an averaging method that is heavily influenced by a relatively small number of funds with high turnover rates. An...; Tags: Investment Company Institute, Mutual Fund, Fund Manager, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance; White papers 2004-11-17
Anchor Your Portfolio With Index Funds: One of the most basic distinctions between mutual funds is whether the fund manager employs an active or a passive management approach. An active management style means the fund manager uses analytic or forecasting tools to select individual stocks for the fund portfolio. In a passive approach, the fund manager...; Tags: Stock, Fund Manager, Index Fund, Mutual Funds, Investment, Retirement Plans, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
Fund Manager Stats: Never mind ranking mutual funds while developing a scorecard for fund managers. The article talks about rating portfolio managers with alpha rankings. Alpha helps to measure whether a manager is adding value to a client's diversified portfolio. Alpha analysis enables to see the value added by a manager in relation...; Tags: Fund Manager, Thomson Corp., Error, Manager, Alpha, Alpha Analysis, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Strategy, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Management; White papers 2003-01-01
Index Fund Management: A Basis Point Game: Managing an index fund is a basis-point game. Unlike active equity managers, who hope their fund's performance will consistently rank high relative to their benchmark and peers, index fund managers are usually indifferent about the absolute performance of the index itself. That is not to imply that index fund managers...; Tags: Game, Performance, Fund Manager, Equity, Benchmark, Performance Management, Investment, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance; White papers 2003-10-01
Thy Neighbor's Portfolio : Word-Of-Mouth Effects In The Holdings And Trades Of Money Managers: This paper explores the hypothesis that investors spread information and ideas about stocks to one another directly, through word-of-mouth communication. This hypothesis comes up frequently in informal accounts of the behavior of the stock market. The stockholdings of any given fund manager respond more sensitively to the holdings of other...; Tags: Stock, Harvard Knowledgebase, Fund Manager, Mutual-fund Manager, Investment, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits; White papers 2003-05-01
Wrongheaded Advice from Kiplinger's Steve Goldberg: I like Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. And I like Kiplinger.com columnist Steve Goldberg. I think both do a pretty good job helping investors navigate their way through the thickets of the financial world. Perhaps Steve was just trying to be outlandish this week. Or maybe he had a hard time...; Tags: Fund, Stock, Fund Manager, Investor, Steve Goldberg, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Patrick McDevitt; Blog posts 2009-06-29

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How Australia's richest fund manager beat the market: Boyd: Australia's best international fund manager, Kerr Neilson, has shared the strategy he used to beat the MSCI world stock index by 35% in 2009. Neilson's $7.9 billion Platinum Capital fund achieved a return in the year to June of 18.4% when the MSCI World Index fell 15.7%. Platinum's nearest best...; Tags: portfolio, Morningstar Inc.; News items 2009-08-12
When Less Is More (What Is The Value Of A Mutual Fund Manager's Tenure?): What is the value of a mutual fund manager's tenure? Do they improve with experience or are they merely an expensive adornment? In short, does a fund manager with more time at the helm "manage" a portfolio any differently than a manager new to a fund? Article provides the explanation...; Tags: Mutual Fund, Tenure, FinancialCounsel.com, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
Fund manager produces sterling results: Prudential American Equity Fund showed gains of 47% - fund manager C. Kim Goodwin: C. Kim Goodwin became a mutual fund manager because she was looking for objective and quantifiable results. She got what she was looking for. As the manager of the Prudential American Equity Fund (416-296-0777), Goodwin outperformed the benchmark S & P 500 of 35% in 1995 with gains of 47%...; Tags: Prudential Insurance Company of America; Research articles 1996-05-01
UK fund manager offers a ray of hope on split trusts.: Aberdeen Asset Management, the UK fund manager, offered a ray of hope to holders of split capital trusts by becoming the first fund manager to offer any form of compensation. It proposes to underwrite the losses of 7,000 investors in its Aberdeen Pro Aberdeen Asset Management,...; Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc.; Research articles 2002-06-16
Britain's Schroders Swoops on Barings Star Fund Manager.: By Tracey Boles, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 8--Star fund manager Richard Buxton has defected from Barings Asset Management BAM to Schroders, the latest in a long-line of high-profile fund managers to go on the move. New Star recently poached ...; Tags: Schroders Plc.; Research articles 2001-07-08
Former Hedge Fund Manager Claims ATandT Was Behind Apple's Google Voice Ban:: Former Hedge Fund Manager Claims ATandT Was Behind Apple's Google Voice Ban:( Page 1 of 2 )Former hedge fund manager Andy Kessler said ATandT was the real villain behind Apple's ban of Google Voice from its iPhone App Store. The piece comes just days before the companies are expected to...; Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp.; News items 2009-08-19
Manager rebounds after '90s setback.(Mutual fund manager Donald A. Yacktman): Byline: H. LEE MURPHY Mutual fund manager Donald A. Yacktman has had quite a comeback since making a string of wrongheaded investments in the late 1990s. In 1999, when the Nasdaq Index soared an astonishing 86%, the Yacktman Fund somehow managed ...; Tags: Kraft Foods Inc., mutual fund, stock; Research articles 2003-02-17