ZURICH (Reuters) – U.S. bank State Street has won a mandate to act as custodian bank for a multibillion-dollar compensation fund of the Swiss federal government that was previously at UBS, authorities said on Wednesday. The decision to hand the AHV/IV/EO fund to State Street was made in December after a two-year tender process and the transfer …
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By Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global hedge funds in June sold U.S. shares of technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies at the fastest pace since 2016, mainly driven by semiconductor stocks, Goldman Sachs said in note. The sales could indicate that portfolio managers have become more bearish on tech stocks, after the sector’s …
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By Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hedge fund Schonfeld Strategic Advisors’ flagship fund Strategic Partners ended the first half of the year up 10.3%, driven by positive performance across different strategies and after posting a gain of 1.9% last month, a source familiar with the matter said. Quantitative equities, tactical trading, global macro, relative …
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By Ross Kerber and Suzanne McGee CHICAGO (Reuters) – The spread of artificial intelligence-based systems offers big opportunities for financial services firms, executives say, but asset managers also face higher stakes than other consumer-facing businesses because they manage sensitive information. For example, AI systems could be better than humans at explaining to clients why they …
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(Reuters) – Pershing Square USA, a fund managed by billionaire Bill Ackman, said on Friday it plans to offer shares at $50 each in its initial public offering in New York. Ackman is launching a new investment portfolio that will be available to anyone who can invest in the United States, including retail investors. The …
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By Sinead Cruise and Tommy Reggiori Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) – Sixth Street is embarking on the biggest European recruitment drive in its 15-year history, leasing a new regional headquarters in London’s Mayfair and adding up to 20 employees this year for a push into private credit and real estate. Julian Salisbury, co-chief investment officer of …
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By Noele Illien and Oliver Hirt ZURICH (Reuters) -UBS is shaking up its wealth-management arm, the bank’s flagship business, to boost its offerings to ultra-rich clients, the division’s new co-leaders said in their first internal memo sent on Thursday and seen by Reuters. UBS will create a new unit from July 1, named GWM Solutions, …
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By Mark Miller (Reuters) – 401(k) accounts are far from perfect as a retirement benefit, but they are getting better, and more improvements are on the way. For better or worse, private-sector employers have almost completely substituted the 401(k) for the good old-fashioned defined-benefit pension in recent decades. Not all workers had traditional pensions even …
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By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Perhaps the most famous one-liner in a presidential debate, Ronald Reagan’s “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” question to voters in his match with Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter in October 1980, came as high inflation pummeled consumers’ spending power and captured a general malaise about …
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OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s largest pension fund KLP said on Wednesday it will no longer invest in Caterpillar Inc because of risk that equipment sold by the U.S. group to Israel is used to demolish Palestinian homes and infrastructure, including in the Gaza war. The maker of bulldozers and other heavy machinery may be contributing …
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