The mutual fund business has two components: managing fund assets and distributing (or selling) funds.
Germany has a high savings rate but pension-fund assets of just 14% of GDP.
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Britain and America both have pension-fund assets worth more than 100% of GDP, but very low savings rates.
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The data for the first three weeks of March suggest that loan-fund assets are headed for another increase.
At present, the American industry still dwarfs all others, accounting for over half of the world's mutual-fund assets.
According to fund tracker Morningstar , the average domestic stock fund has embedded losses worth 40% of fund assets.
In the event the dollar declines in relation to the peso, the fund assets in U.S. dollars will rise.
During 2003, GM earned a tidy 18% return on its pension fund assets.
Indeed, Fitch Ratings issued a report in June concluding that 50% of all prime money market fund assets were invested in European banks!
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The pension has paid numerous investment, legal and consulting firms handsomely (from fund assets) for conflicted advice to support the hedge fund plunge.
Since he took control in 1986, fund assets have multiplied tenfold.
The two firms are the industry leaders in the (once) lucrative business of providing hedge funds with financing, lending them shares for short-selling purposes, settling trades and housing fund assets.
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ETFs account for more than 13% of all mutual fund assets (excluding money market funds), and assets have more than doubled since 2008, according to Michael Rawson, ETF analyst at Morningstar.
The survey was conducted for Fidelity by the firm GfK. Fidelity, the second-largest U.S. mutual fund company behind Vanguard based on fund assets, was not identified to the 1, 154 survey participants as the sponsor.
As a result of analyzing German data, and in light of the overall global economic risks, we have moved 15% of the GMG Defensive Beta Fund assets into cash, covered calls and other hedging instruments.
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As we testified, many other abuses such as personal trading by portfolio managers, underwriters parking investment banking client stock in affiliated mutual funds, payment of Investment Company Institute fees from fund assets, have yet to surface as concerns.
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They continue, for example, to have considerable exposure to European banks, with, as of May 31, 2012, approximately 30% of prime fund assets invested in debt issued by banks based in Europe generally and approximately 14% of prime fund assets invested in debt issued by banks located in the Eurozone.
The fund sold assets in June to raise money to meet redemption requests and margin calls, but couldn't raise enough cash to do so.
Historically gold companies calculated total cash costs per ounce by including only mining, processing, selling and royalty costs, said Imaru Casanova, senior gold analyst and investment team member of the Van Eck International Investors Gold Fund (INIVX) and the Van Eck Global Hard Assets Fund (GHAAX).
Since that sum represents half the fund's assets, this is clearly not an investment-led decision.
Oppenheimer does disclose that it charges its funds 0.08% annually to reinvest their collateral in its OFI Liquid Assets Fund.
BlackRock disputed the notion that the fund's assets are worth that little.
As of year-end, about 60% of the fund's assets were in stocks, with 16% of the total in foreign stocks, according to Morningstar.
About a quarter of Alaska's oil and gas royalties goes into an entity called the Permanent Fund, the assets of which are managed by investment professionals.
Vanguard Group, the world's largest fund company by assets, announced 19 new funds with ETF shares, essentially adding an ETF share class to existing traditional mutual funds.
The moves represent an about-face for Fidelity, one of the first institutional investors to take a significant stake in Facebook and the country's third-largest mutual-fund company by assets.
Expressed as a percentage of a fund's assets, the hurdle rate--1% to 4% for most funds--can be thought of as the cover charge to enter the stock market casino.
After the hedge fund froze redemptions, Aris also claims that Guerra cooked up a bad deal featuring the 28 airplanes that made up 30% of the hedge fund's assets.
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Fidelity, the country's third-largest mutual-fund firm by assets, had been an early supporter of Facebook, with many of its funds bulking up on shares when the company went public.
Instead our statisticians took a year-by-year average of equity performance, weighted by each fund's assets at midyear, and strung those five numbers together to get the family's stock market performance.
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