One was a gold and silver fund that advertised connections to Russian farmland investments.
Meanwhile, for silver, fund managers scaled back their net long positions by an even higher percentage.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, CDE makes up 4.03% of the iShares MSCI Global Silver Miners Fund ETF (SLVP)which is trading lower by about 0.3% on the day Tuesday.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, CDE makes up 4.69% of the iShares MSCI Global Silver Miners Fund ETF (SLVP)which is trading lower by about 0.7% on the day Monday.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, CDE makes up 4.44% of the iShares MSCI Global Silver Miners Fund ETF ( AMEX: SLVP )which is trading lower by about 1.6% on the day Thursday.
Under the terms of the proposal, Microsoft would front several billion dollars towards a fund with Silver Lake Partners and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board.
The changes in fund positioning in silver were more mixed in the disaggregated report.
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The new fund, called Silver Lake Waterman, will raise additional capital through the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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The buy-out of the remaining shares will be carried out by a consortium made up of Mr Dell himself, his own investment fund, and Silver Lake.
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Mr. Land's fund is exposed to silver prices through stocks of silver miners.
Then The Wall Street Journal reported that prominent hedge-fund investors like George Soros were dumping silver, which triggered more selling.
The fund is designed to mirror the performance of silver prices.
The metals-focused fund Mr. Hummel manages increased its exposure to silver this month from 10% to 12% of its holdings.
That would put silver demand ahead of global economic growth, which the International Monetary Fund forecasts at 3.5% in 2013.
It would not surprise me to see some fresh speculative and fund money enter the long side of the gold and silver markets as the new year gets under way.
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This trust fund invests 50% in physical gold and the other 50% in physical silver, to get exposure to both.
Among the mutual fund groups that saw inflows this year as oil prices along with gold and silver have steadily climbed the charts are raw material and commodity-related funds.
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Joel Smolen, hedge fund manager at Axion Capital in San Rafael, says hard assets like gold, silver and equities of mining and metals companies in countries like Australia and Brazil are the places to be following the U.S. credit downgrade.
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At mid-morning the gold and silver markets dropped sharply and rapidly on some fresh technical selling pressure, talk that a large exchange traded gold fund liquidated a large position, and as the U.S. dollar index hit its daily high.
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