Portfolio Reporting : Systematic reporting of portfolio data is set to begin for the majority of hedge funds at the end of the year via the Form PF (SEC) and the parallel Form CPO-PQR (CFTC).
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Steel said prices could continue to be under pressure because of end-of-year liquidation and book-squaring by hedge funds and money managers, and weakness in oil and other commodities.
So we need to get very soon to the hard work, the important work, but the achievable work of negotiating a budget deal that funds the government through the end of the year, cuts spending substantially, in a way that all sides can agree on, and that maintains the important investments to keep our economy growing.
Operation Twist will continue to the end of this year and the benchmark federal funds rate will be kept near zero until at least mid-2015.
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Such has been the scale of inflows that by the end of this year (if it continues) the total assets of mutual funds are likely to overtake those of banks, which have been the dominant financial intermediary for the past two centuries.
Another element at play in the efforts to restart U.S. equity trading is the fact that Wednesday marks the end of October, when many mutual funds close their fiscal year and asset managers of many stripes update investors on their holdings at month-end.
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If unexpended at the end of the year, you must forfeit your funds.
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At the end of each calendar year, the investor shifted funds from the better-performing asset class to the worst-performing asset class.
One is there is tremendous amount of capital from the private equity funds that is ready to be deployed before the end of the year, particularly with the potential roll off of the change in the tax rate.
We will have a much better idea once hedge funds report their end of the year long stock portfolios in February.
In another sign that the mutual fund industry is quickly morphing into the ETF industry, Vanguard announced today that it will launch 19 new exchange traded funds by the end of this year.
Consequently, it has been taken for granted that the natural order of things is for QE2 to be ended, replaced, or modified well before the end of near-zero Federal Funds sometime late this year, next year, or the year after.
Assuming a three-year holding period (the average length of investment in mutual funds), this front-end load is costing investors 2.1% per year.
Some of this is buying by fund managers looking to put capital to work before year-end, particularly in the case of funds whose by-laws prevent them from sitting in cash, Klopfenstein said.
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Under current rules, employees often have to forfeit some matching funds if they leave before the end of the year.
Many funds end their fiscal year at the end of October.
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After much negotiation and a few technical glitches, it has at last arranged to start selling the funds of a few other providers, possibly by the end of this year.
One could argue that the seeming anomaly of the relatively strong yen might reflect a seasonal effect: the repatriation of funds by Japanese firms' overseas operations near the end of the financial year.
Prices of junk bonds may have been bid up by investment funds trying to use up large cash balances before the end of the year, rather than by expectations of economic recovery, says Martin Fridson of Merrill Lynch.
They must identify the projects they plan to use funds for by October 1st and must obligate them before the end of the year.
Judging by the price of Fed fund futures, investors expect the federal funds rate to be as low as 2.25% by the end of the year.
Large Private Fund Advisers to liquidity private equity funds would be required to file Form PF within 120 days of the end of each fiscal year (instead of 15 days on a quarterly basis in the original proposal).
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