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Think of it as real property used for virtual purposes. Digital Realty Trust, a builder and owner of data centers, is buying rival DuPont Fabros Technology in a deal worth $7.6 billion. The race by Amazon, Alphabet and other tech firms to domin
Question: What is one thing (in no particular order) behavioural psychologists, filmmakers, journalists and advertisers all understand?Answer: The power of the narrative; humans like stories.Before the written word was invented, sitting round
On May 31, 2017, Dag Rodewald, Head of Passive and ETF Sales Germany and Austria at UBS ETF, gave a presentation named “Are you making the most of passive investing?” Since he gave a number of hints on how to research exchange-traded funds (ETF
After pushing the market indices to new highs at the beginning of Thomson Reuters Lipper’s fund-flows week ended June 7, 2017, investors began to take a wait-and-see approach ahead of what many in the mainstream media are calling “Super Thursda
Competing visions of Dodd-Frank overhaul leave a rollback up in the air. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to undo much of the post-crisis financial rules. The Senate has a tamer view that rejects the idea of gutting the consumer protecti
U.S. equity investors are behaving as if it were the best of times, pushing stock indexes to new highs. Bond investors seem to believe a different tale, driving yields sharply lower even as a new Federal Reserve interest-rate hike looms.Yields
Like a cinematic vision of Frankenstein’s monster, German utilities RWE and E.ON have just been given a reviving jolt of electricity. The country’s top court ruled on Wednesday that they can reclaim their payments of a nuclear fuel tax to the t
Concerns about persistent underinvestment in the U.S. economy resulting from the financial crisis are overblown. The underlying issue is that the lack of a robust anti-trust framework has made it too easy for dominant firms to increase profits.
No one told Indian banks about the capital market conspiracy. While advisers in the United States, Japan and China are being accused of “tacit collusion” for charging high underwriting fees, their Indian counterparts are working for almost free
The Small Cap Blend style ranks ninth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in our 2Q17 Style Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter, the Small Cap Blend style ranked ninth as well. It gets our Dangerous rating, which is bas
Looking at the newly launched funds in Europe, I have come to realize that there seems to be a general trend toward more flexibility in the funds. A high number of funds launched over the last three years have extended investment objectives. Th
Thomson Reuters Lipper’s fund macro-groups (including both mutual funds and exchange-traded funds [ETFs]) took in $13.1 billion of net new money for the fund-flows week ended Wednesday, May 31. Equity funds (+$9.2 billion), with their first pos
Barclays is facing an unfamiliar issue: it may soon have more capital than it needs. The UK lender on Thursday said it was selling most of its remaining stake in its South African subsidiary for 2.2 billion pounds ($2.9 billion). After a year o
Britain’s credit boom is a cause for concern. Not for the obvious reasons: rates are low and the banking sector is sturdy. The issue lies with another big UK industry – cars.Auto finance is driving up the stock of non-mortgage debt, which incl
Since January the price of Bitcoin has surged more than 90%, taking it over the symbolically but not economically meaningful USD2,000 mark (at the time of writing it stands at USD2,400). As so often happens when Bitcoin’s price breaks through a
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that invest based on factor strategies have become very popular in Europe over the last three years. Investing with a factor strategy means these funds do not follow a market capitalization-weighted index. Since “fa
Click here to view the dashboard in detail.Last Update: May 31, 2017S&P 600 Aggregate Estimates and RevisionsFirst quarter earnings are expected to increase 4.1% from Q1 2016. Excluding the energy sector, the earnings growth estimate impro
Click here to view the dashboard in detail.Last Update: May 31, 2017S&P 400 Aggregate Estimates and RevisionsFirst quarter earnings are expected to increase 10.7% from Q1 2016. Excluding the energy sector, the earnings growth estimate impr
Ravenous investors are devouring fintech’s IPO scraps. Financial software group Alfa is floating in the biggest UK offering this year by company value. The pricing looked rich to start with, but investors have bid it up even higher. Blame a gen
After a dour week of politically charged market declines investors appeared to shrug off Washington concerns as economic data provided a glimmer of hope during Thomson Reuters Lipper’s fund-flows week ended May 24, 2017. Market indices were abl
The Large Cap Growth style ranks fourth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in our 2Q17 Style Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter, the Large Cap Growth style ranked fifth. It gets our Neutral rating, which is based on a
EURUSD hit its lowest level (USD1.0039) since 2003 in the run-up to the first round of the French election. The currency recovered ahead of the final round on expectations that Emmanuel Macron would defeat Marine Le Pen – who favored French wit
Often one hears the phrases “dumb” money and “smart” money when commentators are discussing financial market participants. Such classifications are not only arbitrary they are also meaningless. More than twenty years toiling away both on the se
Some $171.8 billion of cross-border merger and acquisition deals between U.S. and European companies have been announced so far in 2017, the highest figure at this stage of the year for a decade as companies on both sides of the Atlantic hunt f
Thomson Reuters Lipper announces the winners of the Hong Kong Lipper Fund Awards 2017. These highly-respected awards honor funds and fund management firms that have excelled in providing consistently strong risk-adjusted performance for a certa
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