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...He worked there from October 2018, and headed the firm’s S&P 500 options desk until his move to Millennium in February. Spottiswood worked for Jane Street from August 2020 to February....
...Changes remained at the higher than normal level of 17 per cent across the big European markets and the S&P 500, according to research by Russell Reynolds, the leadership advisory firm....
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...The challenge to mutual fund dominance has been brewing since State Street launched the very first US ETF in 1993, an S&P 500 tracking fund known as SPY that now has $500bn in assets....
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...The award placed him among the highest paid chiefs in the S&P 500. It also prompted investor disquiet....
...Investors in BlackRock’s iShares Core S&P 500 ETF will be asked to chose among seven different general policies ranging from voting generally with management to prioritising Catholic values or environmental...
...Assets under management benefited as a handful of major tech stocks drove a recovery in the benchmark S&P 500 index, and net inflows in the quarter topped $80bn, below expectations of $92bn....
...Its flagship S&P 500 fund, SPY, the world’s largest with $431bn in assets, is not eligible because of rules surrounding its structure as a unit trust....
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...The blue-chip S&P 500 closed up 0.9 per cent, at a new record, continuing a rally that has pushed the index 27 per cent higher since October. The Nasdaq Composite gained 1.3 per cent....
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...Economic data: S&P Global publishes its manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ indices for the US....
...Comerica and Utah-based Zions Bancorp were among the biggest fallers on the S&P 500 index, dropping 12.4 per cent and 10.8 per cent respectively....
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...The company subsequently grew by acquiring other companies and counts Platts, part of credit rating company S&P, among its competitors....
...Fink also boasted that BlackRock is the highest-performing financial services stock in the S&P 500 since its 1999 float, delivering total returns of 7,700 per cent....
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