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The global market for fixed income exchange traded funds will likely grow to more than $2 trillion in assets over the next decade, compared with $302 billion today, according to a new report by iShares.
July 10 -
On June 19, 2012, J.P. Morgan Asset Management launched a multi-asset unit headed by Seth Bernstein, who will oversee the new effort as Global Head of Asset Management Solutions, reporting to Mary Erdoes, CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, according to an internal memo.
June 19 -
On June 18, 2012, change is in the air for one of the world's oldest asset management fund shops.
June 18 -
On June 6, 2012, Putnam Investments unveiled a new office in Beijing, representing the firms first foothold in China.
June 6 -
On June 5, 2012, T. Rowe Price added a new fixed income offering, the Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund (TRECX), to its suite of emerging markets bond funds.
June 5 -
On May 29, 2012, HSBC added a fourth EM fund to its portfolio.
May 29 -
On May 24, 2012, AdvisorShares has partnered with explorer, social entrepreneur and environmental advocate Philippe Cousteau, Jr. to launch AdvisorShares Global Echo ETF (NYSE: GIVE), an active, multi-manager socially responsible fund.
May 24 -
On May 23, 2012, Vanguard began trading ETFs in Europe.
May 23 -
iShares has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch the iShares Latin America Bond Fund, which is benchmarked to the Barclays Latin America Bond Index.
May 21 -
It's been four years since the management team at Neuberger Berman decided to spend $922 million in order to acquire a majority interest in their firm and the fixed income and alternative asset management businesses of Lehman Brothers' Investment Management Division in the wake of Lehman's collapse.
April 20 -
The Exchange Traded Products (ETP) industry recorded its best ever start to a year, attracting net new assets of $67.3billion in the first quarter of 2012, a 57% increase over the $42.8billion gained in the first quarter of 2011, according to the Q1 2012 ETP Landscape Report released by BlackRock. The first quarter 2011 figure had previously been the best annual start on record.
April 4 -
Peter Graham is the head of Product Development and Marketing at New York-based Mirae Asset Global Investments (USA), an arm of an Asian financial services firm that tries to provide investors in the United States with access to investments in emerging markets.
March 23 -
State Street Global Advisors on Thursday began trading the SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term High Yield Bond ETF on the NYSE Arca. The new SPDR ETF offers investors access to high yield corporate bonds with short durations. Its annual expense ratio is 40 basis points.
March 16 -
WisdomTree Investments, Inc. is visiting the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square on Thursday with Western Asset Management Company, a subsidiary of Legg Mason, to celebrate the launch of the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund.
March 14 -
Although many defined contribution fund managers pay lip service to global investment opportunities, many DC plans actually have a home bias in their investments and are severely underweighted in their overseas exposure, according to a paper released by OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
March 12 -
BlackRock is looking to do some good while doing well at the same time with its latest values-based exchange-traded fund focusing on human rights.
March 12 -
Seoul, Korea-based Mirae Asset Global Investments today unveiled its Global Dynamic Bond Fund, which will bet on sovereign, quasi-sovereign and corporate bonds from issuers in both emerging and developed markets, for U.S. investors.
March 6 -
Wasatch Funds has launched what it touts as one of the few no-load open-end mutual funds focused exclusively on frontier and smaller emerging market countries, including Africa and Southeast Asia.
March 5 -
The chief economist of The Dreyfus Corporation said Wednesday that world growth will slow down again in 2012, based on International Monetary Fund calculation methods.
March 2 -
With ears to the ground in more than 30 countries, Franklin Templeton's fund managers are ready to buck plenty of fixed income investing trends in 2012. Most notably, they plan to embrace active management of their funds, as well as global volatility.
March 2