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...And then there were these spin-offs from the original mailing list, which included people like Deepmind’s co-founder Shane Legg, and these ideas had found their way into AI research communities....
...Smart reads Bulbs, Birkins and bored apes The famous Scottish scholar Charles Mackay’s financial observations weren’t always correct....
...Its fifth-biggest ETF is the $616mn Legg Mason Low Volatility High Dividend ETF, Morningstar data show....
...Charles Schwab, one of the most prominent competitors in the ongoing fee war among ETF providers, has seen a disappointing slowdown in 2020....
...Wells Fargo is also exploring a sale of its $578bn asset management business in a push by chief executive Charles Scharf to restore the troubled San Francisco-based bank to health....
...The EU’s richest states have dug in their heels over the region’s budget as European Council president Charles Michel seeks to ease the blow of spending cuts on poorer countries, Donald Trump extended clemency...
...European Council president Charles Michel is seeking to ease the blow of spending cuts, but member states face a €60bn funding gap caused by Brexit....
...Charles Diebel has moved to Mediolanum Asset Management as head of fixed income strategy for the €33bn Irish investment unit of the Italian financial services provider....
...• Legg Mason has hired Sophie Andrews as head of UK strategic alliances, a new role at the $767bn Baltimore asset manager. She previously worked at JPMorgan AM....
...Funds focused on income stocks fared the worst, including Legg Mason Clearbridge US Equity Income, losing 8.7 per cent over the three months to March 2018 and Standard Life American Equity Unconstrained,...
...The worst-hit US equity funds were BlackRock US Dynamic and Legg Mason IF ClearBridge US Equity Income, losing over 8 per cent over one month to February 8....
...In May, Charles Chen Yidan, Tencent co-founder, launched a $7.6m annual award aimed at recognising outstanding research in education....
...Several US-listed asset managers have also been affected, including Invesco and Legg Mason, which have seen their share prices fall 13.7 per cent and 9.5 per cent respectively....
...Like many other large, traditional asset managers, Legg Mason has launched a series of next-generation ETFs to adapt....
...More than 20m shares traded hands in the first 10 minutes of trading on the NYSE, with the shares touching a high of $31.90 — valuing Fitbit above S&P 500 companies like Legg Mason, Gamestop and Pitney Bowes...
...Three of the largest US brokers, Wells Fargo Advisors, Raymond James and Charles Schwab, have also stopped offering Pimco funds via their managed accounts platforms....
...The market has been helped by initiatives such as the “sole traders lunch”, where a handful of employees from fund boutiques get together to discuss ideas and problems, according to Charles Heenan, investment...
...● JPMorgan Asset Management has appointed Anjula Jegatheswara, previously a client relationship manager at Legg Mason, as a sales manager....
...Last year Franklin Templeton took a majority stake in K2, while Legg Mason added Fauchier Partners to its existing Permal subsidiary....
...For investors who dislike too much risk, he suggests the Legg Mason US Equity Income Fund, which invests in 80 high-quality US companies and has a dividend yield of 3.5 per cent....
...Charles Hendry has paid back £473, double the £223 that was demanded....
...“In a market that has just gone down 50 per cent, buy-and-hold doesn’t seem to work,” says Robert Hagstrom, a fund manager at Legg Mason Capital Management, who wrote The Warren Buffett Way....
...Citi sold its asset management business to Legg Mason in 2005. Analysts praised the decision by Citi to shed the business, and the bank’s shares gained 1.54 per cent to close at $26.39....
...Unfortunately, in last month’s column I didn’t have space to highlight any managers (except Bill Miller from Legg Mason), so a follow-up is necessary....
...Over the last 18 months, much of Mr Morton’s time was spent overseeing the integration of Legg Mason’s brokerage arm....
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