Sentences with phrase «employed by asset managers»

Fund Managers Lift Results With Timely Trading Sprees The practice, known as «marking the close» or «portfolio pumping,» is a form of «window dressing» — a term for a variety of techniques employed by asset managers to make their results look better at the end of the quarter.

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The gravamen of the complaint is that the asset - allocation models adopted by the retirement plans» investment committee departed dramatically from prevailing standards employed by professional investment managers and plan fiduciaries, and as a result, caused participants to suffer massive losses and excessive fees.

Before that, he was employed as a senior bond analyst by W.R. Huff Asset Management, a private institutional money manager specializing in high yield bonds and mezzanine investments.

The complaint points out the two main differences between CITs and mutual funds, one of which is that, while ERISA explicitly excludes mutual fund managers from the definition of a fiduciary to the extent they are managing assets of a plan covered by ERISA, the trustees (and any sub-advisers they employ) of CITs are ERISA fiduciaries, according to Department of Labor (DOL) Advisory Opinion 2005 - 09A.