Not exact matches
Active asset
managers are under pressure from index - tracking passive funds, which
charge lower fees, and there are other possible bidders for Hermes, which has nearly 31 billion pounds ($ 41 billion)
in assets under management, include Australian fund
manager Challenger (CGF.AX) and U.S. firms Old Mutual Asset Management OMAM.N and Eaton Vance (EV.N), the source added.
Warren discussed the bet
in this year's annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders, explaining that the high fees
active money
managers charge create a headwind relative to low - cost passive alternatives.
Where an SWF is primarily a fund
manager investing liquid financial assets of the state (e.g. Singapore's GIC), an NWF is akin to an investment company
in charge of
active corporate governance for the commercial, operational assets of the state such as state - owned enterprises, real estate, forests, infrastructure as a portfolio (e.g. Singapore's Temasek).
Two major factors account for the transformation that already has touched thousands of public schools
in Mexico: the acceptance of authorities
in charge of the system, of course, but most striking, the inner conversion of teachers and students from passive receptors of external directives to
managers of their own learning and
active agents of change
in neighboring schools.
At the BMW 2 Series
Active Tourer media launch
in Innsbruck, Austria, BMWBLOG interviewed BMW Product
Manager Jochen Schmalholz
in charge of the first front - wheel...
Cullen Roche at Pragmatic Capitalism argues that
active managers can add value especially
in a bear market but the fees
charged are still too high.
A world
in which everyone indexes, and
in which no one thinks that
active managers should be able to
charge for their services, is a world that will spend too little time and effort on allocating capital to the right businesses.
Add
in growing attention to the typically higher fees such
managers charge, and more investors are moving their money away from
active funds to passive alternatives, with their lower fees and lower risk.
Asset
managers have been found to
charge fees on the basis of providing
active portfolio management services whereas
in fact the portfolio to a large extent simply tracks a benchmark market index.