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| Liquidity fears put regulators on alert |
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| Regulators in the US and Europe have raised concerns that asset management groups are promising investors liquidity terms they cannot meet |
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| Austrian fund house fights the flab |
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| The sustainability team from Erste, the asset manager, is telling food companies such as Unilever to shape up as part of the fight against obesity |
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| Asset managers are holding out for a hero |
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| David Oakley laments that concerns over fees and transparency in the fund management industry have painted a negative picture of financial advisers |
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| Manhattan mayor mystery |
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| Many Wall Streeters, and rich New Yorkers generally, are reacting with cartoon character-like shock to the election of Bill de Blasio |
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| Is the Fed brewing up bubble trouble? |
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| While bond trades live by the motto to not fight the Fed, James Mackintosh is concerned that the more the Fed prints money, the more shares rise |
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| Swip outflows fail to dampen bidding war |
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| Aberdeen Asset Management and Australian rival Macquarie are trying to buy Scottish Widows Investment Partners, despite poor performance |
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| Hedge funds 'too cosy' with prime brokers |
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| Tens of billions of dollars each year in indirect and direct commissions are paid by hedge funds to brokers for sending new investors their way |
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| Zurich pledges $1bn to go green |
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| Zurich Insurance Group is to invest up to $1bn into bonds that fund projects aiming to mitigate climate change and global warming |
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| The captive asset manager's choice |
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| Retail investors are deserting in-house asset managers in droves, and banks and insurers risk losing their fund businesses unless they act quickly |
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| The fund body, its boss and a resignation |
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| Domenico Siniscalco, CEO of Morgan Stanley in Italy, and former head of Assogestioni, the country's asset management association |
