All articles by IPE staff – Page 44
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Features
Free float gives MSCI an edge
Dramatic changes were made to the benchmark and domestic indices used by most investors last year, say analysts at Deutsche Bank. “Index providers have effectively converged in terms of general methodology and this has influenced the local indices as well,” the bank says in a report. Looking ahead at the ...
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Features
Narrowing focus to go global
Talking to Mellon’s Martin McGuinn makes it patently clear that last year’s deal to hive off its traditional retail and small business banking business Citizens, the Royal Bank of Scotland’s US subsidiary, marked a giant step for the Philadelphia-based group. He makes no secret of the fact that his objective ...
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News
Pictet once again heads custodian rankings
GLOBAL - For the eighth time in 10 years Pictet has been voted as the custodian clients are most satisfied with, according to the annual R&M Global Custody Survey...
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News
SwissAir publishes details of e680m mandates
SWITZERLAND/UK- SwissAir Pension Fund Services has published mandates valued at a total of e680m on IPE-QUEST.com.
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Features
Alternatives join the mainstream
Institutional investors are increasingly turning to alternative investments in an attempt to boost returns, claims joint research undertaken by Goldman Sachs and Frank Russell. The report finds that since the last survey in 1999, the amount of funds committed by European investment houses to private equity has almost doubled from ...
