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...About 31 per cent of active funds in the cheapest quintile beat their average passive peers compared with 19 per cent of those in the priciest quintile....
...Companies in the middle quintile for gender balance reported an average annual return on assets of 7.7 per cent, compared with 5.6 per cent for those with the highest share of men in their workforce and...
...The increase in goods spending also does not look as outsized when one considers the strong disposable income growth of the bottom 3-4 income quintiles — recall that [government] data imply a high marginal...
...Tobacco sales in the US generated $94.4bn last year, according to Euromonitor, the data group, whereas the prescription opioid market was worth $8.5bn, according to Quintiles IMS....
...Research from the McKinsey Global Institute shows that 10 per cent of companies account for 80 per cent of profits, and the top quintile earns 90 per cent....
...IMS shareholders will receive new Quintiles shares and will own 51 per cent of the company....
...Quintiles, the US healthcare group that helps pharmaceuticals companies carry out clinical trials, is to tie-up with New York-listed rival IMS Health to create a company with a combined market capitalisation...
...IMS and Quintiles described their combination as a merger of equals, with IMS shareholders owning 51.4 per cent of the enlarged company to be called Quintiles IMS....
...At the same time, “performance in several of the firm’s flagship funds has deteriorated”, leaving 60 per cent of retail assets under management in the bottom two performance quintiles, Mr Hawken said....
...Using data from the start of 2002 to the end of 2013, they found that the quintile of stocks with the lowest price-to-book ratio beat the wider A-shares market by 83 basis points a month (equivalent to more...
...In addition, dividing dividend payers into five groups (with the top dividend yield payers in the first quintile), the cumulative performance of such shares reflects the generosity of the dividend (see chart...
...Quintiles Transnational, a drug research group owned by Bain Capital and TPG since 2007, filed for a $600m listing last week....
...When Morgan Stanley split stocks into quintiles based on dividend yield, it found the best European performers came from quintiles 1 and 2, and the best US performers from quintile 2....
...After last year’s strong gains, the highest yielding quintile of US equities are trading at a slight valuation premium to the wider US stock market, based on 12 month forward price earnings ratios....
...For the bottom quintile, average real after-tax household income rose about 18 per cent....
...Samsung also entered a joint venture with US biopharmaceutical company Quintiles earlier this year, pledging to invest Won2,100bn in the burgeoning sector....
...Adam Parker, chief US equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, urged clients to hold more material stocks, arguing valuations remain “in the cheapest quintile versus history”, despite last week’s rally....
...With the government touting the industry as the economy’s future growth driver, Samsung set up a biopharmaceutical joint venture with US biopharmaceutical company Quintiles this year, pledging to invest...
...Barcap doesn’t quantify this further, but BlackRock found that housing assets for the average household in the bottom four income quintiles — those most likely to find themselves with underwater mortgages...
...quintile and just 12 per cent in the top quintile....
...Eli Lilly has already gone further than many of its competitors in sharing the high costs of drug development with external partners, including through cost and profit sharing deals with Quintiles and Covance...
...This “seed portfolio”, which was worth €339m in September, includes 3i’s stakes in Quintiles, the US biotech research group; Labco, the French diagnostics network; Gain, the online foreign exchange provider...
...AstraZeneca and Merck have combined forces around cancer drugs, and Eli Lilly brought in Quintiles, the world’s largest clinical research organisation, as an investor in drug development....
...Scotland’s life science sector was given a boost with the recent official opening of a new building at Livingston by Quintiles Transnational that will create 150 jobs by 2011....
...Eli Lilly has signed cost- and revenue-sharing deals with operators including Covance and Quintiles....
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