Moreover, foreign fund managers are again complaining about Malaysia's lack of transparency, lack of corporate governance.
Foreign fund managers with good brand names, such as Fidelity and Mercury, are even trying direct marketing.
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In Singapore, for example, a foreign fund cannot even register unless it is managed entirely in that market.
Each has bought foreign fund managers in recent years, acquiring investing skills and marketing expertise in the process.
And given the amounts of money that foreign fund managers typically handle, only a few companies have tyres big enough to kick.
Although such methods may have had a short-term impact in shoring up the stockmarket, they have put many foreign fund-managers off for good.
The life insurers are trying to change, tying up with foreign fund-managers to learn investment skills, and introducing professional financial planners alongside their insurance ladies.
Our portfolios benefited from holding significant foreign fund positions over the past years, but we have also benefited from selling foreign funds that have fallen in our rankings.
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Indeed, foreign fund managers who were supposed to be buying Malaysian stocks in the lead-up to and the aftermath of the MSCI reinstatement have been big net sellers of Malaysian equities.
Although Centaurus, which is run by former traders from BNP Paribas, the country's largest bank by assets, is reasonably well-regarded, Pardus, a foreign fund known for its abrasive style, is viewed with suspicion.
India is financing its current-account deficit with volatile foreign fund inflows into the capital markets rather than foreign direct investment, which is a matter of concern, Mr. Subbarao said at an event in Mumbai.
That could occur, for example, if you have an investment in a foreign hedge fund or private equity fund which would be subject to FATCA but should not require an FBAR.
It would have never occurred to me to ask a foreign government to fund the project.
Even when the relationship is this good, however, foreign banks and fund managers still need to take a leap of faith.
Sri Lanka's risk rating is likely to be downgraded, while foreign investors and fund managers will think harder before investing in the country.
That makes the economy more exposed to external shocks, such as swings in confidence among the foreign investors who fund the bulk of the deficit.
In any case, foreign entry into the fund-management industry will not resolve the difficulties at hand.
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There is no question that this will significantly increase CNPC's access to financing that would otherwise be unavailable to fund its foreign operations.
Previous efforts to reform the pension fund have been quashed by Japan's Jurassic bureaucracy, as was an earlier attempt to create a sovereign-wealth fund using foreign-exchange reserves.
When investors purchase a foreign stock or stock fund, they are actually placing two bets: one on the stock itself and the other on the currency the stock trades in.
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They can, for example, tax the foreign earnings of commodity producers, ploughing the proceeds into a sovereign-wealth fund that invests in foreign assets.
It means that foreign reserves and dollar transactions fund the U.S. economy.
Mutual funds offer an easy path to diversified foreign bond exposure, and fund managers are experienced enough to go beyond government bonds into attractive corporate issues, too.
John Marks Templeton is familiar to FORBES readers as the dean of international investing, the man who laid the path for retail fund holdings of foreign shares by Americans.
Thompson said at the session's outset that there was plenty of time to return to the issues of foreign money and alleged Democratic fund-raising excesses that kicked off the public hearings in July.
Besides, bills to allow foreign investments in local pension fund managers and increasing the cap on such investments in the insurance sector are expected to be placed in Parliament for lawmakers' approval in the budget session that will resume on April 22.
Bad news at a time when the Western banks that fund a lot of foreign debt are still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis.
Well, let me ask you this: How would you feel if a foreign government used its sovereign wealth fund to buy an American car company and moved it overseas?
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