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Acadian Asset Management, an investment manager specialising in sophisticated global equity and fixed income strategies, has launched an Emerging Markets Small-Cap Equity UCITS dollar fund in conjunction with Russell Investments.
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Conduct charges defined third quarter results at Bank of America, while Citi and JP Morgan also saw their numbers marred by litigation provisions or conduct failings. Only Goldman, of the first crop of US investment banks reporting this week, largely escaped a blow from past misdeeds.
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Good environment, social and corporate governance practices are moving from a bonus for investors to a commercial necessity, which is likely to add extra challenges for investors and issuers in Africa.
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Bank of America has managed to beat analysts’ expectations and post a third quarter profit of $168m, which compared to a figure of $2.5bn from the same time last year. Once again, the beleaguered bank has had to put huge conduct charges through the quarter's P&L.
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has released a consultation paper on real estate investment trusts (Reits), with proposals that it says will improve governance while offering more flexibility.
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The head of Nomura's EMEA global finance division will leave the bank, to be replaced by HSBC's Simon Deeny and head of ECM Ken Brown.