Kaiser is part of a trend of mutual fund companies offering ways to mix your religious views with your money.
Two years ago Mr Halek won a bid, against Mr Woolf, to buy an investment fund called Trend, which owned a big stake in Kotva.
Not everybody thinks that the trend towards a handful of huge fund-management firms is a healthy one.
The clear trend is towards more disclosure from fund sponsors and managers on the products that they create and market to investors.
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The new large fund shows the increasing trend towards top-tier venture firms raising large amounts of capital while lesser-performing funds face a much tougher fundraising environment.
Mutual-fund experts and fund-firm executives said the trend likely accelerated in December.
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The hedge fund manager who continues to buck the trend is David Tepper, founder of Appaloosa Management.
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The mutual fund business has never met an investment trend to which it wasn't willing to pander.
Liquidity has improved, thanks to the widespread use of real-estate investment trusts (REITs). (The American-based National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts commissioned the Ibbotson study.) But the global enthusiasm for REITs, together with the growing trend for property launches in the British mutual-fund sector, has a top-of-the-market feel.
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Bad enough for the fund and the investor, but could the trend also dent the U.S. economy?
When a bottom evolved into a full blown trend, I was happy to add shares for my fund and ride the gain to the tune of a double in my public portfolio through Minyanville.com as well.
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Other signals to move on include an upward trend in annual management expense ratios (MERs) or a fund that has grown large, relative to the market.
The death of many of the industry's tiddlers will compound a trend that started in 2006, of clients consolidating their hedge-fund holdings with a few big managers.
The trend, says David Sherman, manager of the RiverPark Short Term High Yield (RPHYX) bond fund could be drawing to a close.
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That trend is likely to accelerate, especially if a bear market takes hold, and get-rich-quick fund investors start getting poorer.
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