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Money managers build European business despite ills

Money managers are building their European businesses even as the sovereign-debt crisis has scared away firms from making…

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Money managers retool, close core investment strategies

Growing demand for higher-octane equity strategies is forcing many money managers to retool their old strategies and a…

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Institutional investors move into local-currency debt

Institutional investors are making big moves into emerging-markets local-currency-debt strategies, taking broad strides to catch up to allocations…

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‘Pain for progress’: Pan-euro bonds inevitable

Unofficial proposals to create government debt backed by the entire 17-member eurozone would produce a massive bond market, similar in size, liquidity and quality to the $7.3 trillion U.S. Treasury market

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Pimco to gain more ‘autonomy’ in AGI restructuring

Allianz Global Investors on Tuesday announced restructuring effective Jan. 1 that will give PIMCO greater distribution independence and will more closely align the elements of Allianz's other business.

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Emerging-markets equity up against capacity wall

As many as half of the most sought-after emerging-markets-equity managers have closed their strategies, many at the end…

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Climate-related investing continues to heat up

Institutional investors are beginning to incorporate climate change risk factors into their asset allocation processes, and leading funds are contemplating a bevy of environmentally friendly investments

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Bond returns’ heady days are over, report says

Bond investors should not expect returns for the next 11 years to be as good as those of the previous 11, and severe drawdowns are possible when inflation is rising, according to the annual Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2010

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BlackRock rules the roost

BlackRock Inc.'s acquisition of Barclays Global Investors last year made it the world's largest money manager, according to the annual Pensions & Investments/Towers Watson & Co. global 500 ranking

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Experts: QE2 could worsen funding woes

A second round of quantitative easing in the U.S. and U.K. is likely to worsen funding levels of defined-benefit pension funds in both countries, according to consultants and managers