Last month I gave a speech at a convention for institutional investors held in Miami.
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Now, thanks to folks like Dave Cummings, trading costs are falling for institutional and retail investors.
But Abhijit Kukreja, an analyst with Auerbach Grayson, a New York City brokerage for institutional investors, disagrees.
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Roger Ehrenberg blogs at www.informationarbitrage.com and runs Monitor110, an Internet data service for institutional investors.
As for institutional collapse, it did not begin with Mr Sharif and will not end with him.
According to the Sunday Times newspaper, BT revealed its change in thinking at a briefing for institutional investors.
The mega-retailer has since reconfigured the menu of funds to include several low-cost funds appropriately priced for institutional investors.
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In evaluating fossil fuel stocks, the calculus for institutional investors has some complications.
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There is no quick fix for institutional weakness, only the possibility that steady encouragement and chance will bring about progress.
Following a 30-year academic career, he founded quantitative investment research firm Haugen Custom Financial Systems, designed mainly for institutional investors.
Same goes for institutional players, particularly pension funds, underinvested as yet in equities, 10 to 15 percent below historical norms.
This is a graduate student competition to create new financial instruments for institutional investors to place capital in impact investing.
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Though the concept was a unique solution for institutional investors, one detriment to success was that SuperUnits had only institutional appeal.
But it met stiff resistance from other members of Congress who didn't like the idea of personal accountability for institutional dysfunction.
The brief urged UNESCO to focus in particular on establishing frameworks and guidance for governance and the science-policy-society interface, and for institutional capacity building.
For institutional investors who crave certainty and predictability, these are challenging times.
"I think the influence is there, " says analyst Ethan Siegel, with The Washington Exchange, a firm that monitors Capitol Hill for institutional investors.
Britain has a tough new stewardship code for institutional investors, and the European Fund and Asset Management Association has just published similar rules.
For starters, the stock has been bashed this week with the freeing up of a relatively small tranche of shares, largely for institutional holders.
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Virtus Investment Partners said today that it bought Rampart Investment Management, a firm specializing in customized options strategies for institutional and high-net worth clients.
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They also have built technologies for institutional investors and investment banks.
Stocks in the country are now seen as a must-have for institutional investors, while economic growth has exceeded 6% in four of the past five years.
Anyone looking for institutional problems at Notre Dame is unlikely to find them, which would seem to indicate little if any worries over reputation or recruiting.
With the advent of exchange-traded products (ETPs), adding gold exposure to an investment portfolio is now more convenient and less costly for institutional and retail investors.
As a result, it can be difficult for institutional investors to evaluate these managers using their traditional tools, which may rely heavily on the prior track record of earlier funds.
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The fund has an annual management charge of 0.25% and a fixed expense of 0.15% for all investors which was previously 1% for retail investors and 0.6% for institutional investors.
If the corpocracy is to be tamed, and bosses held properly to account, ultimately the only sustainable solution is for institutional shareholders to properly carry out their responsibilities as owners.
Most of all, he needs to make sure that from now on he communicates clearly with all his shareholders, not just with analysts who work in private rooms for institutional investors.
Offer large, attractive, foreign direct-investment opportunities for institutional investors.
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Because of the growing demand for investors seeking to understand how their portfolios will be affected and how they can reduce their risk, the new green property indexes should be well received for institutional investors.
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