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The world’s largest asset manager is far from being an activist investor, but it is starting to ask more questions, the New York Times reports.
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The world’s largest asset manager is far from being an activist investor, but it is starting to ask more questions, the New York Times reports.
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WASHINGTON, May 16- Big banks won key concessions in the battle over who dominates the $630 trillion derivatives markets as the top U.S. regulator adopted watered-down rules to bring swaps onto exchange-like trading platforms.
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BOSTON-- The headlines about exchange-traded funds suggest there are no limits to the growth of these low-cost, easily traded alternatives to mutual funds.
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*Gold finds some relief as U.S. data hurts stocks, dollar. LONDON, May 16- Gold hit a four-week low on Thursday, declining for a sixth straight day for the first time in more than four years, as investors spooked by recent price falls favoured other assets.
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*Soros Fund Management cuts SPDR Gold Trust holdings. LONDON, May 16- Gold dropped for the sixth consecutive session on Thursday, hitting its lowest level in four weeks, on a stronger dollar and battered investor sentiment. Gold fell as much as 1.6 percent to a low of $1,369.29 an ounce and stood at $1,374.46 at 1012 GMT.
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The vote to split roles for JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon on Tuesday could be driven by big index funds, as well as by Institutional Shareholder Services
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May 14- Top U.S. money managers raised concerns at an informal discussion with New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley last month about the large inflow of dollars from mom-and-pop investors into fixed-income funds the past few years.
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Fidelity Investments received permission from U.S. regulators to open its own actively managed exchange-traded funds.
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Boston- based Fidelity in December filed an application to set up a series of actively managed ETFs with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the agency approved the request last week, spokesman Jeff Cathie said.
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The rally in many of the most heavily shorted names is causing a "worst nightmare" situation for bearish investors and hedge funds alike, said Cramer.
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LONDON, May 14- Asset manager BlackRock said on Tuesday that one of its former employees was arrested in April by City of London police on suspicion of insider dealing.
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Emergency Financial Manager in a report issued on Monday presented a review of Detroit's problems, from gaping budget deficits to a crushing debt load and said the city is insolvent.
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May 13- Michigan's biggest city is "clearly insolvent" and needs to restructure its debt and renegotiate its labor contracts to address its problems, Detroit's emergency financial manager said on Monday.
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NEW YORK, May 10- The surge in Japanese stock prices and the plunge in the yen against the U.S. dollar on Friday have bolstered the appeal of two currency-hedged Japanese equity exchange traded funds. The smaller, Deutsche Bank- owned DB-X Japan Hedged Equity MSCI ETF was also up nearly 1.0 percent as well, rising 2.5 percent this week.
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Stephen Cohen, CEO of the London-based Governance for Owners, could cast the deciding votes as to whether JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon continues his dual role as CEO and chairman.
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LONDON, May 10- Most investors see the yen's latest lunge as a byproduct of the rich world's money printing gambit and not a deliberate escalation in a notional currency war, but it is raising concerns about possible new ructions.
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LONDON, May 10- Silver prices swung wildly in the wake of extreme losses seen in gold last month, but while investors fled bullion-backed funds in droves, holdings in the less glamorous precious metal are remarkably robust, for now.
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An obscure London firm may determine whether Jamie Dimon keeps his dual role as chief executive and chairman of JPMorgan Chase.
