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But fund managers are optimistic for the future, with a host of new products expected to try to tap into a market recovery.

Surveys suggest, he said, that about three-quarters of mainland China's fund managers had spent less than three years in the profession.

It claims, for an additional fee, to be able to put together a portfolio of the best hedge-fund managers.

Fund managers said the current shortage in glass used for LCD panels could keep output in check and support prices.

Global fund managers have been allowed to set up joint ventures with Chinese partners on the mainland, but can only hold minority stakes.

Fund managers warned of job losses and said the industry would be crippled.

Investment bankers are losing their jobs or at least seeing their bonuses cut, and hedge-fund managers are going out of business.

In Europe, fund managers and analysts said the focus had begun to shift from sovereign debt worries to US and Chinese economic data.

Colin O'Shea, head of commodities at Hermes Fund Managers, said the more speculative investors had moved out of gold.

One of the perks of my job is that I rarely run into boring fund managers trying to peddle a "new" take on equity investing.

If this were just a case of hedge-fund managers and bankers spending their bonuses, then the bubble argument would have great power.

For fund managers based in Asia, recent market events seem to have turned conventional wisdom on its head.

Fund managers meet executive directors twice a year for an hour and expect to understand what is going on.

Fund managers and analysts said the bond seemed to be pitched more at traditional investors in renminbi bonds than at Islamic investors.

He said the body was likely to focus on specialist fund managers in areas such as private equity, commodities and real estate.

Fund managers have had a great year, and have little incentive to get out now.

Fund managers now seem to be reluctant to hold any euro-zone government debt.

The growth implications of the budget deal also do not bode well for the U. S. currency, fund managers said.

Chinese companies are allowed to hold up to 75 per cent in joint-venture fund managers if foreign investors hold the remaining 25 per cent.

Tracking hedge fund managers and shifting funds between them offers an alternative to tracking the markets for wealthy investors.

In a world in which precious few fund managers are capable of consistently outperforming their index Bill Mott is an exception.

As a group, brokers have demonstrated much more muscle in engineering tariff reductions than fund managers are ever able to do on their own.

They were willing to listen to slick hedge-fund managers who promised to make 30 percent a year on high velocity yak-hide arbitrage.

Executives and hedge fund managers began bragging about compensation packages that would have been considered shameful a few decades before.

Fund managers looking after pension plans should be seeking opportunities that will pay off over the long term .

Mike Riddell of M& G, one of Europe's biggest fund managers, called it "probably the most worrying day" of the crisis so far.

Impossible. When you take fund managers out to drinks, they tell you what matters: underlying liquidity, and government policy!

Many fund managers are still convinced the U. S. economy will avoid a recession and stocks will rally into the end of the year.

Fund managers generally do not put sufficient confidence in the venture capital market due to a series of considerations.

The same fate seems to have befallen active equity fund managers.

European fund managers cut their equity holdings to their lowest level in a year and lifted bonds and cash.

After all, the film is about the last cry of a dying finance center, the murder of a metropolis, committed by fund managers and accountants.

The motives may well be much simpler: fund managers trying to expand their turf.

The idea was that foreign fund managers would help to professionalise China's young investment fund industry.

FUND managers and bank executives have learnt that investors are often more forgiving if their peers are losing money as well.

how pathetic that they cover their ignorance by blaming hedge-fund managers in London.

In this political climate, if everyone calmed down and hedge fund managers paid some more tax, that would be fair enough.

Fund managers, who allocated a pittance to commodities a few years ago, now put up to 5% of their cash into them.

'I don't see retail investors and fund managers putting money into the market, ' he said.

Still at the bottom of fund managers' shopping lists: banking, the rotten root of the financial crisis.

Sceptical fund managers have been forced into a position of being "fully invested and scared as hell. "

Professional fund managers, however, are generally confined to the company of other fellow travellers.

The hedge fund managers came first, but the support system that followed them has now become one of the main attractions for newer managers.

Well-paid fund managers have spent decades trying to find ways to beat the market.

The company had suspended the two fund managers, Kevin Chang and Wilson Wong, late last month and started an investigation.

Once a buttoned-up industry, its change in attitudes is now apparent, from the open-necked hedge fund managers of Mayfair to the big banks.

Aware of these flaws, most banks and fund managers avoid selling more than a small number of such instruments.

Fund managers are seeing the opportunity to move from the back foot to the front.

We've had dozens and dozens of fund managers, and several CEOs, e-mailing and calling all day.

Some analysts and fund managers said the banks may struggle to find adequate demand this year.

Chinese commercial banks, fund managers and securities companies are already allowed to invest in global bonds and equities.

The latest poll of global fund managers by Merrill Lynch found that risk appetite is at its lowest level in over a decade.

A number of foreign fund managers have begun poking around the market, impressed by the valuations.

Few fund managers are trying to raise money today.

As soon as a few fund managers started getting out of the market, suddenly all of them suffered huge losses.

To crack down on insider trading, the consultation paper says the CSRC will expand its supervision of fund managers.

As a matter of fact, when fund managers appear on TV to talk about the stocks they like, they are usually pumping the securities they own.

As for his vague explanations, they were no vaguer than those of many other hedge-fund managers and even mutual-fund managers.

The flood of money pouring into the hedge fund industry has seen the best fund managers shut their doors to new money.

Just as fund managers were too upbeat last month, some argue that the current pessimism is overdone.

But once that initial spate of spin-offs has occurred, where will budding hedge-fund managers be able to prove their mettle?

The global equities market is not a strong suit for Chinese fund managers, he adds.

This is all good news for domestic-based fund managers who are on track to reach retail assets of $75bn by the year-end.

Still, fund managers note that when it comes to insurance plays in the region, each market is at a different stage.

CFOs and mutual fund managers may hope for just such a return of the retail investor.

Polcari said traders could dominate through the end of the year as fund managers refrained from making big bets before year end.

Still, fund managers said appetite for IPOs is likely to be limited, given Mideast turmoil and inflation worries.

And a 2006 regulation required fund managers to specify the share of commissions they pay for executing trades and for research.

Weak external governance requirements, objectively speaking, the Fund's internal fund managers can be strong oversight and constraints.

Patience, says Mr Grome, would need to be a crucial part of the strategies of fund managers both new and old.

One of the hot topics in the paper is the plan to allow fund managers to trade equities and derivatives for personal accounts.

Even when fund managers are able to contact their clients directly, there is no guarantee that they will reply.

But while the potential universe is huge , experienced fund of fund managers do not begin with a blank sheet .

Often, fund managers will have advanced degrees and many years of investment experience.

If retail investors in Iowa want their money back, fund managers have to sell something and that may mean Brazilian or Chinese equities.

"The information we get is not the same as the information local fund managers are given, " he says.

By the end of the year, $306 million in financial support had been provided to 18 companies through these fund managers.

Value Partners has grown into one of Asia's best- performing fund managers on the back of soaring investor demand for Chinese equities.

Few fund managers can consistently outperform when so much information is indeed reflected in market prices.

limited partnership private placement funds: investors have limited liabilities for the fund; managers assume unlimited liabilities.

Everyone, from small retail investors to top fund managers, appears to trade on tips from contacts who claim to have "inside" information.

No one is feeling this more keenly than private equity fund managers, who are among the best-paid of all intermediaries.

But fund managers elsewhere should also reflect on how Olympus managed to keep this huge hole hidden for so long.

NOT so long ago, most fund managers riding the private-equity wave were squeamish about appearing in public.

In case there are any changes in fund managers during the reporting period, the Company shall specify reasons.

As Mr Tuckett shrewdly points out, it was not clear to many of these fund managers what a "rational" decision should be.

The research output from the global analysts is of course supplemented and also prioritised by our regional and global fund managers.

Turns out that hedge fund managers are, well, a little loose with the facts. I'm sure you're completely shocked by this revelation.

Fund managers still hold some hope that the costliest provisions of the legislation can be negated.

So how are fund managers in the region responding with products to help nervous investors protect their money?

Before this, only mainland banks and selected fund managers were able to invest client money overseas under the QDII scheme.

I imagined myself smiling at the hedge fund managers who came in and out: "Hello, it's milder today isn't it? "

In stock-picking or other strategies, some fund managers try to limit the downside risk.

Meanwhile Middle Eastern fund managers and Asian consumers are quietly keeping the U. S. economy afloat.

However, although domestic retail investors have lost money as well, they are still buying equities, say fund managers.

GEORGE SOROS, one of the original hedge-fund managers, believes that every boom in the making is tested.

Especially in the United States, consultants are playing a bigger role in introducing hedge fund managers to pension funds.

But fund managers have another question to answer -- is the present crisis like the other crises?

It frequently advises fund managers on the strategies the SWFs are interested in and how they can get a piece of the action.

Bond-fund managers have to worry about their results over the next quarter, or the next year, if they want to retain clients.

Many fund managers believe there's a good chance the project will get up and running, however, largely due to China's interest.

Many fund managers and high-rollers have allocated small percentages of their portfolios to gold as a hedge against inflation.

Within days of leaving office, the former Fed chief spoke to a private gathering of hedge-fund managers, organised by Lehman Brothers.

But unwise US fund managers have been berating Ben Bernanke, the US Federal Reserve chairman, for not bailing out the market.

The only sign of resistance comes from fund managers, many of whom say their duty is simply to achieve the best returns.

Fund managers move in packs, while index trackers have no option but to load up on the likes of ICBC and PetroChina.

Back in the Asian crisis fund managers stopped recruiting and developing talent.

From being masters of the universe two years ago, hedge-fund managers now fear becoming servants of Brussels.

As those funds make capital calls, investors have to send in their cash -- another factor in the redemption trend, hedge-fund managers say.

Because investors cannot beat the market in aggregate, all this means is that money is transferred from investors to fund managers.

For a start the salaries, and even the jobs, of both analysts and fund managers are heavily dependent on quarterly performance.

The impact of the hedge fund managers' purchasing power has not been evenly felt.

Others include the city's multiculturalism and its appeal to fund managers of different nationalities.

They held the inaugural Value Investing Congress, a gathering of antsy hedge fund managers, at the Time Warner Centre in New York this week.

For endowment fund managers such as Michael Glickstein, it has been a nail- biting few months.

"We wanted someone who could find good new fund managers rather than just looking at the same old managers, " says Ms Munro.

Canned beans and shotguns were about the only long positions that paid off for hedge fund managers this year.

But Crispin Odey, one of London's most respected hedge fund managers, was seeing things differently.

Much of it lies in how mutual fund managers are compensated and judged.

Target-date fund managers therefore regard themselves as selling a product that runs "through" rather than "to" retirement.

PROFESSIONAL fund managers find it very hard to outperform stockmarket indices in a reliable fashion.

Fund managers and fund custodians shall perform their entrusted duties in accordance with this Law and the provisions of the fund contracts.

At least that's what many mutual-fund managers focused on Europe say they are doing.

Only later were indices used to measure the performance of professional fund managers.

Professional fund managers have to prepare regular reports for clients on the progress of their portfolios.

And that may explain why so many hedge-fund managers get rich, and why their clients are much less likely to do so.

If this scheme works, a number of the fund managers are going to make vast returns.

Under the proposals, the CSRC would have the right to conduct on-site investigation of fund managers and custodian banks.

In 2008, to reflect on the end of the year, the fund managers think first of all to make up the good macro-economic classes.

The era of hedge-fund managers being unable to pay the rent may soon be dawning.

For fund managers and companies in search of money, CIC's chief investment officer, Gao Xiqing , has become highly sought-after.

MOST hedge-fund managers like to stay out of the spotlight.

Regardless of the motivation, the result is fewer assets to be managed by Asian fund managers.

Fund managers around the world are hoping he opts for a third round.

In effect, the portion of the investment return that was purely a result of fund managers' skill was being reduced at every stage.

Observers say art is a unique asset class and fund managers should be well informed on the nuances of the art market.

It was also likely to lead to the failure of some fund managers, said Richard Baker, chief executive of the MFA.

Though an 'offshore' market, it was reassuringly familiar to Chinese fund managers and their clients alike.

Some fund managers are avoiding many of the big-name gold producers and are going for smaller rivals that are increasing production.

As the fund managers do this, they accept low prices for the securities and incur costs for trading stocks and bonds.

To generate higher returns, the PBoC is quietly handing out investment mandates to international fund managers specialising in equities.

The European Commission has been hammering out the details of its alternative investment fund managers directive since April 2009.

Mr. Han Gang on recruiting for the "Great Wall Jiufu core growth Stock Securities Investment Fund (LOF) " fund managers notice.

Bankers, financiers and fund managers are among the biggest losers.

Accountancy firms, lawyers, retail banks, stockbrokers and fund managers are taking similar steps to serve their wealthy customers.

Fund managers are usually judged on their performance over a three-month period.

Without question, some fund managers who relied on traditional relative value analysis were caught out by this turn of events.

For decades they used their bargaining power to force down the fees they paid to conventional, active fund managers.

At the end of each month, fund managers price their portfolios for clients.

The remaining capital was largely farmed out to other hedge fund managers.

But bond-fund managers say the ratings firms' track record makes them unreliable indicators when picking investments in volatile markets.

Hedge fund pioneer Michael Steinhardt has criticized hedge fund managers for becoming nothing more than asset gatherers.

He recommends investors seek active fund managers to map opportunities still remaining in Asia or indirect forms of exposure to the region.

Indeed, even professional fund managers who want to invest in China have to be creative to get around the quota system.

However, not all fund managers subscribe to the same view. Some argue economic growth does not necessarily lead to investment returns.

These fund managers will continue to manage their portfolios in accordance with the existing investment guidelines.

One of London's most experienced fund managers was prepared for the worst.

The conclusions support this hypothesis, the investment behavior reflect the impact of career concerns on the mutual fund managers.

Unsurprisingly, fund managers shrug off the idea their fees will come under pressure this year.

A global market offers far bigger returns to those at the top of their game, be they authors, lawyers or fund managers.

Fund managers will need to be innovative and have support from the local regulator if they are to stand a chance.

Today, the ire of the usually powerful who find themselves powerless is directed at short-sellers and hedge fund managers.

Fund managers have been reallocating cash to equities from fixed income and reduced cash positions.

In the past two years, several big hedge fund managers floated or sold stakes to banks, including Lehman and Morgan Stanley.

Hedge fund managers Paul Marshall and Amit Rajpal of Marshall Wace argue that Brazil's credit market is heading for a US-style crisis.

Fund managers have since pared equity exposure on fears the global economic recovery could lose momentum or that another crisis could flare.

The recent sell-off in stock markets is likely to impact upon sentiment in the near term as fund managers brace for redemptions.

One of the main problems for potential hedge fund managers in China is a simple lack of tools.

Fund managers dealing with losses from south-east Asia were obliged to move to less risky investments, a so-called "flight to quality. "

It is in this context that fund managers are assessing the implications of the most recent announcements.

Retail fund-managers have fed themselves well, but their investors have been left with the scraps.

On Wednesday, Chinese securities regulators issued new rules allowing fund managers and brokerages to invest abroad.

Even Reuters is planning to launch its own online face book, targeting fund managers and traders.

Even so, the difficulty in accessing Chinese returns directly presents challenges for investors and fund managers alike.

Protesters complaining about rewards for bankers and state pension fund managers sent a bullet to Anders Borg, finance minister.

This paper discusses the problem that noise trading behavior of investment fund managers and the dividend proportion of their income.

HEDGE-FUND managers are not forgiving types but their customers appear to be.

Fund managers tap political connections to win the coveted right to trade A-shares.

This would make it easier for fund managers to choose the brokers they want to use for each service separately.

Fund managers may grow for a while because of superior investment performance.

The government now has a chance to put in place reforms likely to have a positive impact on the economy, fund managers add.

The ministry also wants to set up a forum to bring foreign fund managers face-to-face with the Japanese executives who often fear them.

Any change in the analysts' recommended lists is immediately highlighted to the fund managers.

They expect hedge fund managers to be more aggressive and to take larger bets in their search for much higher returns.

In response, funds of funds are focusing more intensely on screening fund managers and their investment strategies.

The new FT print and online publication will be available globally and pitched at analysts, investors, consultancies and fund managers.

Fund managers and analysts fear that Bank of America needs to raise lots of additional capital by selling stock, at extremely low prices.

The regulator will aim to issue licences to "well-regulated and properly resourced" hedge fund managers within four to eight weeks.

That might seem fair enough, given the scandals in which hedge-fund managers overstated returns.

Improve the legal liability of Chinese securities investment fund managers violating loyalty duty.

Private-equity and hedge-fund managers improve economic welfare by allocating capital more efficiently.

That means many private fund managers have the complex task of operating dozens of individual trading accounts held by clients.

However, onshore fund managers believe it is too late to enact any meaningful protection against competition from offshore fund managers.

The report said while foreign fund managers were looking to expand into Asia, local money managers were planning to expand abroad.

Although some QDII fund managers have decided to invest on their own, they are still working with their foreign partners in other areas.

For other asset classes, it must use fund managers approved by the ministry of human resources and social security.

Conflict of interest between analysts and fund managers has slight impact on forecast errors.

For a generation fund managers who bet against Siemens were seldom wrong.

The sudden timing of Beijing's decision surprised some fund managers, but they agreed it was shrewd.

But suppose that every institution handed its portfolio to hedge-fund managers. The average fund manager cannot earn more than the market.

Mr Thomas even believes China could be at risk, joining some hedge fund managers in fretting about the fast-growing economy.

Hedge fund managers are generally highly professional, disciplined and diligent.

The onetime darling of hedge fund managers, uranium had looked like missing the powerful rally in commodities markets.

IT ALWAYS AMAZES me how few investors-and sometimes, fund managers-can articulate their investment philosophy.

Some fund managers see exposure best achieved through local subsidiaries of multinationals.

This pattern of returns occurs because hedge-fund managers often invest in illiquid (hard-to-trade) assets.

No longer must investors be at the mercy of error-prone and expensive fund managers.

"Why the hell should UK small cap fund managers finance the small cap sector of the world? " asked one fund manager.

The issuance is relatively small to test the interest in the unusual offering, say fund managers and analysts of Islamic markets.

"A lot of fund managers fall in love with an idea and ride it all the way down, " Kemp says.

Fund managers are also thinking about different asset classes offering a variety of returns.

He spends three months of the year on planes to meet new fund managers and other industry participants.

Stung by attacks from politicians and union leaders, fund managers are belatedly eager to get their message across.

As for carry recipients, fund managers point to the usual suspects -- the Australian and New Zealand dollars.

Were the fund managers seduced by Mr Madoff's reputation and his list of investors?

That is the cynical verdict of a fund-management executive on the European Union's proposed Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive.

It won't only be champagne-swilling fund managers that lose out should a country default, but the nation's retirees, a key group of voters.

But it will take years for the "Dutch discount" to disappear completely, hedge fund managers say.

Of course, many private-equity fund managers would argue that academic studies already demonstrate they have such virtues.

Few fund managers will brave the 'career risk' of a bold bet on Japan at this juncture.

Investors must demand that fund managers develop the skills needed to engage as owners and improve companies.

Hedge-fund managers have every incentive to take this route, since they take a percentage of all profits, however they are derived.

Before the market correction, stocks were at a relative premium but fund managers now see buying opportunities.

That such fees endure might suggest investors can identify outperforming fund managers in advance.

By contrast, actively managed fund managers can act immediately on the results of their research.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has also suggested that fund managers work with industry groups to build assessment tools.

Still, many bond-fund managers expect yields to stay within a band of 2. 75% to 3. 25% for the rest of the year.

Investors reward fund managers who have recently beaten the market; such fund managers will inevitably own the most popular shares.

Fund managers have been making the case for emerging markets on a regular basis over the past 20 years.

Fund managers are in short supply, so it is common for one manager to run more than one fund.

That means Chinese fund managers could gradually stop hiring foreign advisers as their own capabilities evolve.

That said, a growing number of fund managers say they are getting squeamish about private equity's levels of debt.

Fund managers have remained fairly quiet throughout these developments.

Chief executives argue that they are forced to provide forecasts because analysts and fund managers demand them.

Bankers and fund managers say at least 15 IPOs, and as many as 30, that play on China consumer demand are in the works.

Many hedge fund managers are looking for ways to cash in part of the value of their businesses.

Those trustees pick a consultant, who selects fund managers who might buy structured products from an investment bank.

Hedge-fund managers needed to hold cash to meet redemptions.

Short selling is a strategy that hedge fund managers use, and it involves selling a security that the trader assumes will fall in price.

This would free fund managers and investors from the added costs of navigating Europe's fiscal and legal patchwork.

defaming other fund managers, fund custodians or institutions selling fund units; and.

The BofA survey on fund managers has found that investors view equities as the cheapest relative to bonds since March 2003.

Neither are the incentives of fund managers necessarily in synch with their investors' best interests.

Hedge fund managers rarely disclose their market outlook to anybody other than their investors.

He adds that good incentives and compensation from private fund houses are attractive to fund managers.

Second, there are the professionals, including lawyers, bankers and hedge-fund managers.

Traders and fund managers who were catching some sun found themselves glued to their BlackBerrys and on the phone to their offices.

Investors will demand to know more than hedge fund managers currently tell them, and rightly so.

But it's not enough for the equity market, which some hedge fund managers believe has become overly bullish.

Mr Foyston's teams do not have much time for the big picture wealth flows beloved of some fund managers and economists.