When one size doesn't fit all.
Small and medium-size institutional investors are increasingly utilizing exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to efficiently implement investment strategies that used to be the exclusive domain of large institutional investment funds. Most discussions about the use of ETFs tend to focus on the benefits they offer to retail investors. Indeed, most passively managed index tracking ETFs are a […]
Here’s a full list of winners from the 16th annual Canadian Investment Awards Gala held December 1, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Morningstar Equity Fund Manager of the Year Award Winner: Jim Hall, Chairman and Director of Research, Mawer Investment Management Ltd. Morningstar Fixed Income Fund Manager of the Year Award Winner: […]
After a few years of abysmal markets, the Top 40 money managers pulled off a solid return of 6.6% for 2010, following 2009’s terrific market rally. There were even a few stellar jumps on the list as some players clocked double-digit increases. Yet despite the good news, no one’s celebrating. Managers aren’t yet ready to […]
Vanguard unseats Fidelity as largest U.S. mutual fund company.
Ken Fisher has fighting words for Pimco.
Tail risk strategies not a slam dunk.
Pension plan allocations to alternative assets have nearly tripled over the past 10 years and now account for 17% of all pension fund assets globally, according to research from Towers Watson. The firm’s Global Alternatives Survey of 149 asset managers covers the following asset classes: real estate, private equity fund of funds, fund of hedge […]
High-quality corporates looking frothy.
In our May 2009 Top 40 Money Managers Report, institutional money managers were seeing red, logging mammoth losses in the great train wreck that was 2008. Just last year, we reported that the Top 40 money managers had $300 billion shaved off the value of assets under management, prompting one manager to comment that the […]