 | | | | Japanese companies are increasingly turning to investment banks and public relations firms for advice on dealing with potential approaches by activist investors who are targeting low valuations and cross-shareholdings in the nation. | | |
| | | Fund investors piled into U.S.-based equity exchange-traded funds in the week ended Wednesday, following six straight weeks of withdrawals, Lipper data showed on Thursday, as investors geared up for strong quarterly earnings. | | |
| | | U.S. municipal bond funds reported $1.3 billion of net inflows in the week ended July 18, compared with $651 million in inflows in the previous week, according to data released by Lipper on Thursday. | | |
| | | Top asset manager BlackRock Inc has hired Ray Cameron as head of the Americas within its investment stewardship arm, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Thursday, turning to an outsider to fill the role left vacant since last year. | | |
| | | (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) | | |
| | | (The writer is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are his own.) | | |
| | | Canadian miner Detour Gold and activist investor Paulson & Co entered into an increasingly heated public exchange on Wednesday over the hedge fund's campaign to seek change at the company and a possible merger approach. | | |
| | | A prolonged U.S. trade war with China and Europe would dent global economic growth and force investors to reassess the profitability of U.S. companies, some of the biggest hedge funds and private equity investors in the United States warned at an investment conference on Wednesday. | | |
| | | Erik Cetrulo, a former portfolio manager at Steven Cohen's Point72 Asset Management, is raising funds for a global macro discretionary hedge fund and is targeting a launch in the first quarter of 2019, two sources familiar with the situation said. | | |
| | | Emerging market equities and real-estate debt remain attractive at a time when most of the year's gains in the S&P 500 have already been realized, billionaire investor Howard Marks said on Wednesday at the CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha conference in New York. | | |
| | | Morgan Stanley's better-than-expected results on Wednesday capped a strong second-quarter earnings season for large U.S. banks. | | |
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