Tag Archives: asset management industry


Investors eye safer funds, firms must adjust-survey

July 6, 2009 : Permalink

CNN Money – Money managers must offer new portfolios and keep cutting costs to survive in an era where frightened investors prefer safer fixed-income funds to stock and hedge funds, a report released Monday showed. Badly bruised by last year’s […]

BGI deal flags institutional bank, fund arm split

June 12, 2009 : Permalink

Forbes – Consolidation in the asset management industry is set to intensify as encroaching regulation and client demands for independence force banks to hive off fund arms, Barclays said on Friday. Major investment banks were finding it ever harder to […]

Hedge-Fund Investors May Add $50 Billion in 2009, Barclays Says

June 2, 2009 : Permalink

Bloomberg – Hedge funds may increase assets by more than 8 percent this year as clients led by pension plans and rich families invest $50 billion of the cash they held while financial markets fell, according to a report by […]

Fund managers poised for wave of consolidation

May 19, 2009 : Permalink

Reuters – Hedge fund and traditional money management firms hard hit by last year’s market meltdown are poised for a surge of mergers and acquisitions to bolster depleted assets and widen sources of revenue. "We’re going to see a massive […]