Tag: Investment analytics

In 2010, local Asia long-term funds gathered $55 billion in net inflows, slightly higher than in 2009, according to Strategic Insight, an Asset International company.

FTSE Group has licensed GlobalX Funds to create an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on the FTSE/ASEAN 40 Index.  

Standard & Poor's and Harel Financial Group launched a suite of sector indexes covering a range of companies within the Israeli equity market.

Investors are more bullish towards global equities than at any time in the past decade, according to the Bank of America (BofA) Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers...

Standard & Poor's launched a series of indexes intended for investors with varying risk-reward profiles.

Morningstar, Inc. has introduced four data points for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that it says will provide investors with more robust measures of the total costs and risks associated...

The mutual fund industry has benefited this past year from moderately improved investor confidence, rising stock prices, rapid fund innovation, and evolving leadership among fund managers, notes a...

Stifel Nicolaus' equity research will now be available to National Financial broker/dealers (B/Ds) via Streetscape, the online brokerage workstation.  

Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics, and related solutions, has developed BondEdge TradeLink.

The median return of the State Street Universe (SSU) of total plans rose 5.3% in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the State Street Corporation.

The State Street Investor Confidence Index shows investor confidence fell 3.3 points globally from December to January.

Russell Investments has launched two new emerging markets indexes.

Mesirow Financial is introducing its POLICE Report, which actively monitors and evaluates investments based on quantitative and qualitative criteria.

The stock fund gains seen in December are likely a temporary development, with investors expected to continue their focus on income and risk avoidance through 2011.

Institutional investment managers expect global inflation to increase and interest rates to rise in the coming months as economic growth accelerates, according to a Northern Trust survey.

This will be the third straight year of double-digit gains for domestic stocks, predicts Bob Doll, Chief Equity Strategist and head of the U.S. Large Cap Series equity team at...

Northern Trust upgraded its suite of risk tools by integrating BarraOne to strengthen predictive risk analytics and reporting across asset classes, including derivatives.

After contributing $26.8 billion to long-term mutual funds in October, investors added just $2.7 billion in November, according to data from Morningstar.

A Russell Investments poll found money managers confident in the global economy and its ability to sustain the U.S. equity markets following the global financial crisis.

Despite predictions for higher global equity and commodity prices, and a stronger U.S. dollar for 2011, Bank of America Merrill Lynch also forecasts a much weaker recovery than...