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...Net inflows were a solid $919mn, the second-highest on record although a fraction of 2021’s $3.2bn, while a 22.4 per cent rise in the dollar-denominated MSCI Chile index will have helped those investing...
...Instead, regulators are expected to use the results to warn banks that appear unprepared or have poor risk management, according to rating agency S&P. Some believe the results will be good....
...FTSE Russell, MSCI and S&P hold a dominant market position in Europe, with their indices accounting for more than 80 per cent of passive equity fund assets....
...WeWork has reported an uptick in occupancy in recent months compared to the depths of the pandemic, although analysts with S&P Global warned this week that those levels remain below the threshold necessary...
...McNeil was also relaxed about the possibility of popular ETFs ending up owning uncomfortably large proportions of some stocks....
...Space tourism is also coming closer to reality,” said Hector McNeil, co-founder and chief executive of HANetf, a white-label ETF specialist....
...The S&P 500 has fallen more than 25 per cent from its all-time high in February, marking an end to its 11-year bull market run....
...Invesco’s S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF and SPDR’s S&P Dividend Aristocrats ETF are among funds that handsomely outperformed as the S&P 500 index fell sharply between the end of August and December...
...Drew McNeil, director of Wren Investment Office, remains sceptical about other holdings....
...Royal farewell Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn marches during the royal cremation procession of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the Grand Palace in Bangkok Riding giant s Australian surfer Ross Clarke-Jones...
...The S&P 500’s energy sector rose 1.1 per cent to its highest level since April....
...However, the use of ETFs to speculate is not necessarily bad, says Hector McNeil, co-chief executive at WisdomTree Europe....
...After one of the best weekly performances of the S&P 500 for the year, US stocks were muted on Monday, following a sell-off in European trading....
...The benchmark S&P 500 was little changed at 1,883.68 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged 0.1 per cent lower to close at 16,558.87....
...Over in the US, huge amounts of retail money have been flooding into leveraged or geared funds, tracking everything from banking shares and the S&P 500 equity benchmark index through to gold spot prices....
...US sales of Asian brands, led by Toyota’s 9 per cent increase in December, grew even faster than the biggest domestic carmakers as they recovered from the effects of 2011’s Japanese earthquake and tsunami...
...The iShares S&P GSCI Commodity Index Trust; the iPath Dow Jones-AIG Natural Gas ETN and the United States Natural Gas Fund have all announced they will not issue any new shares, while one exchange traded...
...Barclays Capital estimates commodities ETF’s assets at about $51.9bn at the end of January, just below the $56.4bn held in commodities indices such as S&P GSCI or the DJ-AIG, popular among pension funds...
...The S&P/GSCI benchmark is the oldest and most popular investable index, tracked ed by many ETFs....
...“We’re saying to traders: ‘there’s your toolkit, use it – long, short and leveraged, you’ve got a full offering there,” explains Hector McNeil, head of sales and marketing....
...The S&P 500 index rose 0.8 per cent to close at 1,483.95, outpacing the Nasdaq Composite’s gain of 0.4 per cent to 2,601.06....
...Branding - the response - is about perception(s) in the mind of the potential consumer.Peter McNeil, London Rita Clifton: Actually, when branding is used properly, it is used as a central organising principle...
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