The dream of a closely integrated European economy appears to be fading. Over the weekend, voters in France and Greece booted out the leaders who have struggled to contain the European sovereign debt crisis and end the Eurozone recession.
The first quarter of 2012 was a good one for active managers in the large cap Canadian equity space, as two-thirds beat the S&P/TSX Composite Index, according to the Russell Active Manager Report.
Investors may have been skittish in early April, but the general trend appears to be “risk on” once again, according to Patrick Bradley, product specialist with the global fixed income team at Brandywine Global Investment Management, which manages the Renaissance Global Bond Fund.
BlackRock Investments Canada announced late yesterday that it had rebranded most of the exchange traded funds and closed-end funds that it acquired when the company bought Claymore Investments.
North America’s chief financial officers were feeling more optimistic in the first quarter, marking a rebound from six months of declining sentiment, according to the latest CFO Signals survey from Deloitte.
Companies based in emerging markets must ensure they measure up to Canadian regulatory scrutiny if they are going to seek capital in our markets, the OSC has declared in its Emerging Markets Issuer Review.
An Ontario court has approved a plan submitted by the OSC and IIROC to distribute funds to investors burned in the third-party Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) fiasco that began in 2007.
A research paper published in The American Economic Review in September 2000 suggests that the start of Daylight Saving Time can have a serious effect on the stock markets.
Invesco’s flagship Trimark Fund is getting a new skipper. Michael Hatcher has been named lead manager of the existing team that oversees the fund.
When institutional asset managers want to smooth out volatility, one of the asset classes they turn to is global infrastructure.