07/16/2012
In Britain alone, Muslims contribute a staggering £31 billion per annum to the economy and there are now 10,000 British Muslim millionaires, according to the Ethical Media Group.
07/16/2012
Performance for the Broad Index and its 10 sub-strategies is calculated monthly. June, May and YTD 2012 performance numbers are listed below and are available at www.hedgeindex.com.
07/16/2012
Demand is going to be subdued, given the state of the economy and the sentiment,” Ajay Mitra, managing director, Middle East and India at the council, said in a phone interview from Mumbai. “People are preferring to stay invested in cash becau
07/12/2012
With 152 companies listed, the Tadawul is one of the biggest exchanges in the Gulf. And in terms of volume, it’s the largest in the region.
07/11/2012
Super Fund chief executive Adrian Orr says the fund has been trying to develop these co-investment relationships for some time.
07/11/2012
The US bank said in a filing on Monday that revenues in Europe for the six months to May 31 were $202.8m, down 15% on the $235m it made during the same time last year.
07/10/2012
KPMG International has moved up to the top spot, leading this year's rankings of The World's Best Outsourcing Advisors by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®), a standards-setting and professional advocacy
07/10/2012
The withdrawals compare with net inflows in each of the previous five months and were the highest level of net outflows since October 2009, when clients pulled out 3.76 percent.
07/09/2012
Brompton is offering the IFDS Brompton Global Income fund, as well as the Brompton Global Growth and Brompton Diversified funds. Read more: http://www.investmentweek.co.uk/investment-week/news/2190169/guess-whos-duffields-firm-launches-fund-range#ixzz20B
07/09/2012
Knight Frank, the property agent, said sales of prime property to French buyers had risen 40 per cent in the three months to the end of June 2012 compared with the same period in 2011.
07/09/2012
Towers Watson survey shows total global alternative assets under management near $5 trillion
07/08/2012
“The survey results indicate a notable improvement in sentiment among global fund managers as concerns over the eurozone’s [possible] collapse subside,” said Steve Chuang, senior vice president of wealth management at HSBC Taiwan.
07/08/2012
Wells Fargo AM rates itself the 11th-largest US mutual fund manager and the 28th-largest internationally, with more than $445bn in global assets under management and more than 35 portfolio management teams worldwide.
07/05/2012
The report, published yesterday, said that the recent wave of consolidation in the European fund of hedge funds industry leaves just a handful of candidates for large-scale acquisitions.
07/05/2012
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07/04/2012
Asia-based investment industry CEOs are exploring how to tap institutional capital and rich individuals in the Middle East.
07/03/2012
Nomura last week said it will cut top executives’ pay and suspend some operations amid a government crackdown on insider trading.
07/03/2012
More than eight in 10 women in the hedge fund and private equity industries feel their gender has affected their likelihood of having a successful career, Financial News reports.
07/03/2012
During the month of June 2012, the United States Mint sold 70,000 ounces of gold bullion and 2,898,000 ounces of silver bullion across the various options.
07/02/2012
The Zurich-based lender is selling as many as 80.4 million Aberdeen shares for 245 pence to 255 pence each, a discount of as much as 7.4 percent to the closing price today, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the process is private.