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March
Northern Trust announced today that David McPhillips has been named director of Consultant Relations for the Corporate & Institutional Services business unit in North America.
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Icap is planning to dispose off its cash equities business
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Battery Ventures has raised about $709 million for its ninth investment fund
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Shawn McNinch has been appointed as global ETF product and sales head by Brown Brothers Harriman
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BNP Paribas is reviewing options for its mutual fund business in India
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Evercore Partners has agreed to buy 49% of money-management firm Atalanta Sosnoff Capital for as much as $83.3 million
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Economic uncertainty and high commodity prices will make the investment environment in China in 2010 more difficult than last year
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Most mutual fund investors did not abandon stocks during the market decline of 2008-09, according to Vanguard
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Aladdin Credit Partners has raised $573 million for its initial credit opportunities funds
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Merchant Capital has launched its first European long/short equity fund
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Toscafund will roll out a Ucits III version of its mid-cap fund
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LaSalle Investment Management has appointed Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz as Managing Director, Europe
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Nomura India has made a number of senior appointments
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Bank of China has opened a representative office in Dubai
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Investment funds bounced back to positive asset growth and net sales in the fourth quarter of 2009
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February
M&G Investments may unveil an Ucits III version of its multi-billion global macro strategy
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The Malaysian unit of Manulife Asset Management has named Jason Chong chief investment officer
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Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has announced the appointment of two new partners.
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The mutual fund industry gathered $4.2 trillion in net cash flows worldwide in the second half of the decade
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A recent report from Nomura suggests that Asia is witnessing a resurgence in its financial and political fortunes.
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Last year saw both the US and China supporting clean energy more than ever before. Due to this shift, the market is seeing clean energy firms growing and offering attractive value.
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Amundi has marked a new stage in its international development strategy by listing 17 ETFs on Deutsche Börse
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HSBC Mutual Fund will roll out an open-ended fund of fund schemes in India
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Fortress Investment Group has bought bond investor Logan Circle Partners
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New York-based Karsch Capital Management will launch a distressed hedge fund in the next quarter
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Amati Global Investors today announced the appointment of a director to manage fund raising activity for the Noble AIM VCT.
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China's market has rallied 60% during 2009, but this is not bubble territory
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Woori Investment & Securities along with Temasek’s Fullerton Fund Management will roll out a $30 million fund of hedge funds
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The California teachers' fund is considering investments in commodities to boost returns and to provide a hedge against inflation and a slump in equities
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CrossBorder Capital will launch the Pulsar Global Alpha UCITS fund next month
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Japanese hedge fund advisory firm, J-Flag Investment, is planning to set up a long-short fund
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Jupiter Asset Management has appointed John Chatfeild-Roberts as chief investment officer
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Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System has hired Bridgewater Capital
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BNY Mellon has obtained Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor scheme to invest in Chinese stocks and bonds
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Fund managers are under pressure to deliver results and are looking at outsourcing to optimise performance
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ING Investment Management has appointed Pranay Gupta as Asia-Pacific CIO
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Insurers and investment banks are forming a secondary market in longevity swaps and other derivatives
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Abu Dhabi fund manager, Invest AD, is planning to launch two funds by mid-February
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WisdomTree Investments is planning to close 10 of its exchange traded funds
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January
Abraaj Capital has raised $15 million for the first close of a Palestine fund
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iShares has rolled out six new exchange-traded funds in Canada
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JO Hambro will launch two funds in partnership with its parent, Credit Suisse Private Bank
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Nikko Asset Management is to launch an open-ended investment trust in partnership with the World Bank
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Aberdeen Asset Management has won two institutional mandates
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Hermes North American has made two key sales hires
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GLG Partners is rolling out a Ucits III version of its UK alternatives fund
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Martin Currie is rolling out a UK-domiciled open-ended China fund
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American Century Investments makes key appointment for its Hong Kong office
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BNP Paribas Investment Partners has agreed to set up an asset management venture with a Taiwanese bank
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BNY Mellon has reorganized its global client management team
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Transparency and liquidity risk are the top concerns for institutional investors investing in hedge funds
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First Eastern Investment Group will roll out a Dubai-focused investment fund
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Continued outsourcing to reduce costs has been voted as one of the trends that most likely will affect the markets
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Rodger Lawson, president of Fidelity Investments, will retire at the end of this quarter
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A new team has been hired at RBC to lead a new investment group
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The upcoming Commonwealth Games this year will help put a spotlight on the Indian economic growth, and boost infrastructure investment plans, says Nitin Jain, principal fund manager, Kotak Mahindra (UK).
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Chinese securities brokerage, Citic Securities, is looking to sell part of one of its businesses.
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Deutsche Bank has raised $265 million a new fund
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New Delhi-based DLF is restructuring
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Hermes Fund Managers hires ex Radley Yeldar head
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Singapore’s 3 Degrees Asset Management has introduced a credit opportunities fund
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Sean Simon, chief executive of Ivy Asset Management, has resigned, amid a restructuring of the fund of funds unit within its parent, the Bank of New York Mellon
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Marshall Wace is planning to float an exchange-traded fund tracking its flagship hedge fund strategy
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China’s Guotai Asset Management is looking to set up an index-tracking overseas fund in March
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Sovereign wealth funds are estimated collectively to have about $3 trillion in assets, according to data from State Street Global Advisors
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DoubleLine Capital, a Los Angeles investment firm, will float three fixed-income mutual funds
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Long-term Ucits funds attracted €19 billion of net inflows in November, according to the European Fund and Asset Management Association
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The Standard Chartered Private Bank has appointed Mark Jackman as Global Head of its Trust and Fiduciary business.
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Ignis Asset Management has appointed Chris Fellingham as chief investment officer, responsible for fixed income
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Norges Bank Investment Management has issued a request for proposals for environmental and sustainable resource sectors managers
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UBS has hired Reto Marx as managing director and ultra-high-net-worth country team head
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David Norman and Gary Mairs, two of the fund industry’s most senior executives, have come together to launch TCF Fund Managers, a new asset management business
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CME Group is looking to set up its emissions-trading exchange in the first quarter of 2010
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ING Investment Management is planning to roll out two quant funds in India
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Nomura and Ashmore are placing a bid to acquire a stake in China’s SYWG BNP Paribas Asset Management
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Janus Capital has appointed Pimco's COO as chief executive, The Wall Street Journal reports. Richard Weil will replace Tim Armour, who has served as interim CEO since July after the resignation of Gary Black
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RBS has appointed Galen Moore as head of EDF market access product, Middle East and North Africa
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AQR Capital Management is rolling out the AQR Managed Futures Strategy Fund, a portfolio looking to take advantage of trends in commodities, bonds and other markets.
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Advance Emerging Capital has started a Brazilian equities fund, in partnership with Rio de Janeiro-based Leblon Equities Gestao de Recursos
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UK insurer Aviva has bought US stock fund manager, River Road Asset Management
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San Francisco-based RS Investments has rolled out three new fixed income funds
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India’s Motilal Oswal Financial Services has received regulatory approval to launch its mutual fund business in the country
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TCW Group has rolled out a new emerging markets mutual fund and will liquidate a senior mortgage securities fund
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John Harrison, the chief investment officer of UBS Global Asset Management in the UK, will resign in March.
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Asset managers are asking portfolio managers to invest their bonuses into in-house funds due to uncertainty about the UK’s bonus supertax
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Hermes Fund Managers has appointed Fred Cleary to the fixed income team as director of government bonds
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Steve Wood is stepping down from his role of global head of trading at Schroders