The IFC has decided to cease to maintain indexes on Portugal as of April 1, 1999. Portugal has been included in the company’s IFC Investable and Global Index series, as well as IFCI and IFCG regional and composite indexes.
The IFC has decided to cease to maintain indexes on Portugal as of April 1, 1999. Portugal has been included in the company’s IFC Investable and Global Index series, as well as IFCI and IFCG regional and composite indexes.
Three Credit Suisse First Boston traders were fired after one of them attempted to manipulate the OMX, Sweden's share index.
James Archer, 24, the son of British writer and politician Jeffrey Archer; Adrian Ezra, 26; and David Crisanti, 34, were members of a highly successful index-arbitrage team in London, nicknamed the Flaming Ferraris after their favorite cocktail.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce launched a new family of protected index funds on Dec. 4, 1998. The CIBC Five-Year Protected Funds are the first funds to guarantee 100% of the investor’s initial investment over a five year period.
A fund manager whose mode is active money management and chart analysis gives serious thought to what a successful trading system ought to look like. He may or may not prove to have the Holy Grail, but he has some useful thoughts to contribute to the quest.
Diversifying internationally in the face of increasing correlations among countries and even continents is a problem now and may well become more so in the future.
European stock index compiler Stoxx Ltd. is launching a series of index subclasses.
Enhancing something is supposed to improve it. So "enhanced index" mutual funds ought to be better than plain-vanilla index funds.
In January, the FTSE index launched a £3 million, or $4.8 million, one year marketing campaign. While FTSE would not say what its previous marketing budget was, it admitted that the current amount was a definite increase.