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News Headlines |
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SEC
Agrees Money Market Fund Reforms To Better Protect Investors
Friday 29th January 2010
US
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L. Schapiro
has announced the Commission's adoption of new rules designed
to significantly strengthen the regulatory requirements
governing money market funds and better protect investors.
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Sungard
Expands Trade Execution And Clearing Services To Europe
Thursday
28th January 2010
SunGard, a leading global software and IT services company,
has launched an electronic agency broker-dealer based
in the UK to serve the European markets.
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Surveys
Find Trend Towards Equities
Tuesday
26th January 2010
Two
recent surveys are showing a trend towards more investment
in equities. The BofA Merrill Lynch survey attributes
this to greater risk appetite; Scorpio Partnership suggests
it is at the expense of the hedge funds.
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Hedge
Funds Turn In Best Performance In A Decade
Tuesday
26th January 2010
2009
marked the best annual hedge fund performance in a decade,
according to a new research piece released by the Credit
Suisse Tremont Index.
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No
Progress On Savings Tax Directive
Monday
25th January 2010
The
EU's Ecofin Council (the bloc's decision body for financial
regulation) met this week under the Chairmanship of Ms
Elena Salgado, Second Vice-President of the Spanish Government,
and unsurprisingly failed to make any progress on revisions
to the Savings Tax Directive.
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