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ETF assets held by institutional investors reach US$56 billion in 2023: report

bmcgovern — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:00:10 +0000

Institutional investors in North America owned US$56 billion worth of exchange-traded fund assets at the end of 2023, a 22 per cent increase year over year, according to a new report by S&P Global. The report, based on financial disclosures from U.S. and Canadian pension funds, endowments and foundations and sovereign wealth funds, found the […]

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Ontario Teachers’ focusing on board diversity in proxy voting guidelines

lbailey — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:00:39 +0000

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is setting higher expectations for increased participation of women in board roles at large-cap companies in 2023. The pension fund’s proxy voting guidelines advocate for large-cap companies on developed market indices to increase the number of women directors on their boards to a minimum of 40 per cent, up from […]

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Percentage of institutional investors’ actively managed assets dips: study

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:30:51 +0000

The percentage of institutional investor assets that are actively managed has dipped by eight per cent since 2019, according to a new study by institutional investment consulting firm Callan. The study, based on data collected from 160 U.S. institutional investors with US$598 billion in assets under management, found 62 per cent of assets held by […]

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U.S. largest and smallest cap stocks diverge in FTSE Russell index reconstitution

mschmit — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 04:30:04 +0000

FTSE Russell has released a preliminary list of companies set to enter or leave its U.S. indexes at the end of June as part of its annual reconstitution, which occurs to reflect market changes from the previous year. And the results tell a tale of the growing gap between the largest and smallest cap stocks. […]

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And the Best Stock Pickers Are….

mschmit — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:36:57 +0000

Hint: bigger isn't better.

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