The investment bank also notes that 70 per
cent of fund managers view the global economy as «late - cycle,» the highest level since January 2008 and expect, on average, an S&P 500 peak of 3,100, which is 16 per cent higher than its level at the time of writing.
Despite efforts from the likes of Shell, BP and Exxon to reassure investors their business models are compatible with a low - carbon economy, some 71 per
cent of fund managers said they have not yet decided whether they think oil companies can make a successful transition to a low carbon economy, and 41 per cent do not have a strategy for engaging with oil companies on the issue.
Not exact matches
Microcap
fund manager Acorn Capital has increased its stake in listed Perth - based financial planning firm Plan B Group Holdings to control almost 10 per
cent of the voting power.
With
funds managers holding about 15 - 20 per
cent of assets in domestic bonds, the change in the composition
of household assets has translated into higher demand for bonds — a demand which is no longer being met by government issues.
While analysts believe the likelihood
of a full - blown price war remains less than 50 per
cent,
fund managers believe Coles is willing to sacrifice profit growth to boost same - store sales and protect its market share.
Street Talk can reveal Rivalea, which has 17 per
cent of Australia's pork production and 24 per
cent of the processing market, fronted
fund managers in a handful
of meetings arranged by stockbroker Morgans last week.
10.50 am: Agricultural asset
manager Rural
Funds Group announced a net profit after tax
of $ 20.1 million, up 133 per
cent from last year.
«We think the Wilmar bid appears opportunistic, especially given the recent profit downgrades have been driven largely by one - off factors we think are going to reverse,» Perpetual Investments
fund manager Paul Skamvougeras told The Australian Financial Review after details
of the 65
cents - a-share offer were disclosed on Monday.
The plan emerged after
fund managers and insurers snapped up 6 per
cent of the state - backed lender in five hours on Monday night, raising # 3.2 billion for the Treasury.»
And the Heritage Lottery
Fund report highlighted cuts to budgets for the running
of parks, with 92 per
cent of park
managers reporting cuts to their budgets over the past three years.
Dale Winner, portfolio
manager at the Wells Fargo Advantage International Equity
fund, expects profits for European companies to grow in the neighbourhood
of 15 per
cent.
Obviously, it will have to be 20 per
cent (ignoring fees) and so there is no way that a comparison between the average return earned by the active
managers with the index return will make investors aware that markets have become efficient.1 In other words, the warning light to signal that markets have become inefficient will never light up and so there is no reason to expect that investors will come to a realisation that the flow
of investment
funds to index investing has gone too far — meaning that the envisaged constraint on the flow
of funds to index investing is unlikely to eventuate.»
In its third annual survey
of institutional ETF use, sponsored by BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited (BlackRock Canada), Greenwich Associates found that participating institutions hold just over one - fifth - 21.2 per
cent -
of total assets in ETFs, while asset
managers allocate on average more than a quarter
of total assets under management to the
funds.
In contrast to the usual professional portfolio
manager, who may charge 1 per
cent up front plus transactions fees and perhaps a layer
of mutual
funds fees up to the average level
of 2.6 per
cent for stock mutual
funds, robo advisors may just offer very low fee exchange traded
funds and a very low robo charge.
And investors have a good reason for doing so; approximately 95 per
cent of traditional active mutual
fund managers underperform their broad market index over a five - year period.
Religare Enterprises will sell its entire 80 per
cent stake in Religare Health Insurance to a consortium
of investors led by private equity
fund True North
Managers for an estimated Rs 1,040 crore.