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INDEXCHANGE has received a licence for an ETF on the Nikkei 225 and will be the first such provider outside Japan.
Steven Harcourt has joined Standard & Poor’s European Structured Finance team as Senior Structured Finance Evaluator.
Cushman & Wakefield and inter-dealer broker BGC are entering the nascent property derivatives sector, providing strategic solutions to firms in the sector.
BISYS has acquired TIME Financial Services, Inc, a Woodland Hills, CA-based planning and insurance consulting firm servicing US financial advisory firms.
Spectrum, a provider of middle office services and fund administration for hedge funds and funds of funds, has made four new hires.
The US CFTC has extended until 1 August 2006, the comment period on what constitutes a ‘board of trade, exchange, or market located outside the USA’.
Dow Jones Indexes has created a specialty Turkey index that will serve as the underlying for an ETF from Is Investment, the leading investment bank in Turkey.
Systeia Capital Management, the Paris-based alternative investment manager, has added the Systeia Global Macro Program to its product range.
The Thames River Global Emerging Markets Fund was ranked either top quartile or top decile for every time period monitored by S&P since launch in April 2003.
Year-to-date the USD 500 million fund, rated AA by S&P, was ranked 4th out of 144 funds, over 1 year, sixth out of 139 funds, over 2 years thirteenth out of 128 funds and over 3 years ninth out of 116 funds. Investors at launch (on 4 April 2003) would have enjoyed a return of 205.8% versus 192.27% for the MSCI EM (Emerging Markets) Total Return Index and 177.73% from the sector average.
Dow Jones Indexes has launched the Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 30 Index that tracks the 30 highest dividend-yielding stocks in Australia.
