Articles and Features

Investment management firm Portfolio Solutions has surpassed USD1 billion in client assets under management (AUM). Portfolio Solutions now ranks among the top two per cent of US registered advisors that manage client assets in excess of USD1 billion. »

Barclays Capital, publisher of leading broad market bond benchmarks, has launched a new family of Fiscal Strength Weighted Covered Bond Indices. This new suite of benchmark indices uses fundamental measures of fiscal sustainability to adjust country weights within existing Covered Bond benchmarks, thereby offering an alternative for investors beyond the existing flagship market value weighted indices. »

Knight Capital Group subsidiary Astor Asset Management's mutual fund, the Astor Long/Short ETF Fund (ASTIX), has been added to the 401(k) platform at Paychex, Inc. »

The Board of Trustees of the Market Vectors ETF Trust has approved share splits for five recently introduced Market Vectors exchange‐traded funds (ETFs). »

First more jobs and now a resurgent economy – January has seen President Obama's undeclared re-election campaign make a dream start, says Marcus Bullus (pictured), trading director at MB Capital… »

The start of this year looks very different to 2011 and 2010 even though the themes and stress points remain the same: Risk is cheaper, non government net issuance is negative, investor allocation to financials and growth related assets is low, another upturn in the global liquidity cycle is starting and Euro break up fears recently hit new highs, according to Graham Neilson, chief investment strategist, Cairn Capital… »

Dow Jones Indexes is to launch the Dow Jones LSP Position Sizing Equal Sector US Large-Cap 50 Index, the first in the new Dow Jones LSP Position Sizing Indexes series.  »

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has launched a new global financial investors group to deliver a fully integrated offering to global financial investors, including Private Equity, Infrastructure Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) and Alternative Capital Providers (ACPs). »

BlackRock, Inc has reported full year diluted EPS of USD12.37, up 17% from 2010. Fourth quarter 2011 net income of USD555 million was down 7% from third quarter 2011 and 16% from a year ago. »

The Luxembourg funds industry continued to expand over the last 12 months despite the eurozone crisis and declines in major stock indices. The number of funds in Luxembourg rose by 4.84% to 3,833 and net sales amounted to EUR16.998bn.  While total AUM decreased over the period by EUR101.453bn, mainly as a result of market depreciation, total assets under management were still a steady EUR2,059.419bn, second globally only to the US. »