After years of painful deflation and stock market stagnation, managers of many Japanese companies have amassed large stockpiles of cash and liquid securities--treasure chests that are, in many cases, undervalued by the stock market.
At the start of the year, I spoke with one of my favorite emerging market fund managers, Allan Conway of Schroders.
On a similar note, one of our emerging market debt managers added diversification and was able to return over 40% during one of the rising rate periods.
With his 40th birthday still nearly four years away, Lutnick already boasts membership on the executive board of the Nasdaq stock market and sits on the board of managers of his alma mater, Haverford College.
Our Global Macro Survey indicates that 70% of emerging market portfolio managers expect this to occur, albeit at a reduced pace than in previous quarters.
If the manager is the same, but fund performance is not beating the index for that segment of the market or not beating most of the other managers in that segment, sell if this goes on for longer than a year.
After collapsing to a mere handful of buyers in recent months in response to market jitters, managers say a broader base of AAA investors is necessary to bring down funding costs and expand deal capacity.
At the Morningstar Investor Conference two weeks ago, emerging market fund managers emphasized the importance of corporate governance when investing overseas.
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Dozens of fund managers, emerging market analysts and even an American banker in China have all said the same thing on this site.
The Chilean system has given a boost to the country's fund-management industry, and subsidiaries of American fund managers have captured as much as a third of that new market, according to Celfin, a local subsidiary of Salomon Brothers.
Or is it the job of fund managers to take millions of dollars in fees to promote a static market that will not change to meet changing times and conditions?
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Seventh, the consultant may sell marketing consulting services to managers (including how managers should market themselves to consultants) and host conferences where managers can meet pension clients of the consultant.
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Spinoffs these days are being driven by the growing influence of hedge funds, where impatient managers buy up shares of a company and pressure managers to sell off parts of a business to spur quick market gains, many experts say.
The difficulties of operating in an emerging market may make managers adaptable and resilient.
When this kind of uncertainty happens in the market, fund managers move into safe haven assets, mainly U.S. Treasurys.
The market move was created becuase the Institute of Supply Managers (ISM) Index for June was booked at 55.3 compared to 53.5 in May.
There are reports of managers putting holiday homes on the market.
Scottish businesses reported worsening market conditions last month, according to a survey of purchasing managers.
Most individual investors harbor a guilty secret: They know they should invest in sensible, low-fee index funds but can't resist the lure of money managers who promise to beat the market.
Last week Walter Hewlett, whose father co-founded the company, expressed concern that the merger would increase HP's exposure to the shrinking PC market and would distract managers from the more important task of navigating through the recession.
It should also help illuminate new national security-related risk factors -- particularly in the post-September 11 era -- that need to be incorporated into the "due diligence" risk assessments of investment banks, fund managers and other market players.
For professional money managers, the market has degenerated into a game of chicken.
And even if you are better informed than most others, as many fund managers claim to be, the timing of market swings can be virtually impossible to predict.
As a group, professional money managers were no more capable of beating the market than a bunch of monkeys throwing darts at the stock pages of The Wall Street Journal.
There is a risk that, in a period of market disruption when ETF investors want their money back, managers would be forced to recall such loans, adding to liquidity pressures.
The main effect of these shareholdings now is to cushion poor managers from market pressure.
But Iain Jenkins at EuroHedge, a trade publication, is highly sceptical about the ability of hedge-fund managers to lure institutions into the market.
To win over Chinese customers, Kraft realized that even a global corporation must transform itself, letting local managers make decisions based on their understanding of the market.
In addition, with the growth of direct market access (DMA) and algorithmic trading, asset managers and hedge funds are using broker dealer infrastructure to trade on the market, and potentially create trading problems.
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Fund managers worried about the end of an extended bull market in bonds might look to Asia, where a sudden selloff in a certain class of risky bonds has left many investors with large losses.
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