Worldwide regulated open-ended fund assets increased by 3.1 per cent to EUR52.7 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to the The European Fund and Asset Management Association's (EFAMA) latest International Statistical Release.
Trade tensions, slow growth, and low-interest rates all left their mark on the world’s largest banks last year, affecting the investment banking revenue they racked up.
Net sales of UCITS and AIFs totalled EUR137 billion in January 2020, up from EUR70 billion in December 2019, according to the latest monthly Investment Fund Industry Fact Sheet from The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA).
SIX performed well operationally in the 2019 financial year and generated operating income totalling CHF1,129.7 million.
Scope has assigned a rating of AAA (AMR) to the DWS Qi Dynamic Factors team, confirming its quality and competence in its management of share strategies that use a proprietary quantitative approach based on a dynamic-factor model.
Style Analytics, a provider of factor-based portfolio and market analytical tools for investment professionals, has onboarded new clients who have joined the platform over the past twelve months.
The aggregate funded ratio for US corporate pension plans decreased by 3.9 percentage points in February to end the month at 81.7 per cent, according to Wilshire Consulting, the institutional investment advisory and outsourced-CIO business unit of Wilshire Associates Incorporated (Wilshire).
The market crash caused by a dramatic reassessment of the potential economic impact of the coronavirus prompted a flood of outflows from equity funds in February, according to the latest Fund Flow Index (FFI) from global funds network Calastone.
Total net assets of UCITS and AIFs grew by 3.3 per cent in Q4 to EUR17.7 trillion, bringing the annual growth figure to 16.8 per cent for 2019, according to the Quarterly Statistical Release from the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA).
Jersey’s financial services industry reported a strong end to 2019 with its funds sector seeing an annual 8 per cent increase in the value of assets it services to reach another record high, and the banking sector reporting the highest level of deposits in more than six years, according to the latest industry statistics.