BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Fund Manager
- somebody who manages the investments of a mutual fund or large financial institution
Additional Resources
- How Australia's richest fund manager beat the market: Boyd
- Australia's best international fund manager, Kerr Neilson, has shared the strategy he used to beat the MSCI world stock index by 35% in 2009. Neilson's $7.9 billion Platinum Capital fund achieved a return in the year to June of 18.4% when the MSCI World Index fell 15.7%. Platinum's nearest best...
- News items 2009-08-12
- When Less Is More (What Is The Value Of A Mutual Fund Manager's Tenure?)
- What is the value of a mutual fund manager's tenure? Do they improve with experience or are they merely an expensive adornment? In short, does a fund manager with more time at the helm "manage" a portfolio any differently than a manager new to a fund? Article provides the explanation...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Fund manager produces sterling results: Prudential American Equity Fund showed gains of 47% - fund manager C. Kim Goodwin
- C. Kim Goodwin became a mutual fund manager because she was looking for objective and quantifiable results. She got what she was looking for. As the manager of the Prudential American Equity Fund (416-296-0777), Goodwin outperformed the benchmark S & P 500 of 35% in 1995 with gains of 47%...
- Research articles 1996-05-01
- UK fund manager offers a ray of hope on split trusts.
- Aberdeen Asset Management, the UK fund manager, offered a ray of hope to holders of split capital trusts by becoming the first fund manager to offer any form of compensation. It proposes to underwrite the losses of 7,000 investors in its Aberdeen Pro Aberdeen Asset Management,...
- Research articles 2002-06-16
- Britain's Schroders Swoops on Barings Star Fund Manager.
- By Tracey Boles, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 8--Star fund manager Richard Buxton has defected from Barings Asset Management BAM to Schroders, the latest in a long-line of high-profile fund managers to go on the move. New Star recently poached ...
- Research articles 2001-07-08
- Former Hedge Fund Manager Claims ATandT Was Behind Apple's Google Voice Ban:
- Former Hedge Fund Manager Claims ATandT Was Behind Apple's Google Voice Ban:( Page 1 of 2 )Former hedge fund manager Andy Kessler said ATandT was the real villain behind Apple's ban of Google Voice from its iPhone App Store. The piece comes just days before the companies are expected to...
- News items 2009-08-19
- Manager rebounds after '90s setback.(Mutual fund manager Donald A. Yacktman)
- Byline: H. LEE MURPHY Mutual fund manager Donald A. Yacktman has had quite a comeback since making a string of wrongheaded investments in the late 1990s. In 1999, when the Nasdaq Index soared an astonishing 86%, the Yacktman Fund somehow managed ...
- Research articles 2003-02-17
- PHILLIPS: Fidelity fund manager of the year announced.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-13 January 1999-PHILLIPS: Fidelity fund manager of the year announced C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:060199 (POTOMAC, Md.)-- Fidelity Investor newsletter announced its Fidelity Manager of the Year with Charles Mangum, manager of Fidelity's Dividend Growth fund, as tops in Fidelity...
- Research articles 1999-01-13
- Fund manager fumes at Morningstar stance; Forester fracas raising questions about rating service's methods.(News)
- Byline: JEFF BENJAMIN Crain News Service As Morningstar Inc. prepares to offer its shares to the public, a mutual fund manager is grousing publicly about the fund-rating service's recent re-categorization of a top-performing fund. At issue is M Byline: JEFF...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- FIDELITY INVESTOR: Fidelity Investor announces mutual fund manager rankings.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-20 January 1999-FIDELITY INVESTOR: Fidelity Investor announces mutual fund manager rankings C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:190199 POTOMAC, Md. --Fidelity Investor newsletter announced its annual rankings of all Fidelity stock, sector and international mutual fund managers. At the top of the...
- Research articles 1999-01-20
- Mark Yockey of Artisan International Named Morningstar International Fund Manager of the Year
- MILWAUKEE--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 7, 1999--Artisan Partners announced today that Morningstar has named Mark Yockey, portfolio manager of the Artisan International Fund, its International Fund Manager of the Year for 1998. Established in 1987, the Morningstar Fund Manager of the Year Award "recognizes portfolio managers who demonstrate excellent investment skill, the courage...
- Research articles 1999-01-07
- News: Bull in the heather or bear in the woods?(Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey)(Brief)
- Fund managers around the world are sending mixed signals from bullish to bearish in their view of global markets and economies, according to the latest Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey. Fund managers around the world are sending mixed signals from bullish to bearish in...
- Research articles 2002-10-21
- NAB the top fund manager
- NATIONAL AUSTRALIA Bank has overtaken BT Funds Management as the country's biggest retail fund manager after its $4.6 billion purchase of No 2 retail money manager MLC Ltd in June. Research company Assirt said the combined National/MLC had $28.1 billion under management at June 30, or 14.5% of the...
- Research articles 2000-08-31
- Fund manager scoops up India stocks amid war threat.
- May 30, 2002 The Asian Wall Street Journal ABIX via COMTEX -- Jon Thorn, a fund manager of the India Capital Fund, is one fund manager in favour of Indian stocks. Thorn does not believe that a major war will break out between India and...
- Research articles 2002-05-30
- Fund manager says dollar's slide isn't over; New currency fund bets greenback's rise of late is an illusion.(News)
- Byline: David Hoffman NEW YORK - The decline of the dollar that began in 2001 appears to be tapering off, but at least one mutual fund manager said that it is a short-term illusion. While it...
- Research articles 2005-06-20
- Morningstar Names UMB Scout Funds' James Moffett as Runner-Up for 2007 International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year
- KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- James Moffett, lead portfolio manager of the UMB Scout International Fund UMBWX and assistant portfolio managers Gary Anderson, Michael Fogarty and Michael Stack, have been named runners-up for the Morningstar 2007 International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year award. This year's achievement along with being a runner-up...
- Research articles 2008-01-17
- New York Mutual Fund Manager Suspends Workers for Market Timing.
- By Daniel Dunaief, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 1--Mutual fund manager Alliance Capital suspended two employees after discovering conflicts of interest in trading activities. Alliance said a portfolio manager of the Alliance Bernstein Technology ...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- Career Path: Fund manager Timberlake says lack of degree was no barrier.
- Richard Timberlake is executive chairman of the fund manager Investment Manager Selection IMS, a multi-manager specialist. Earlier, as managing director of Fidelity International, he set up Fidelity's fund management businesses in Europe, Australia, and Canada. He branched out on his own in 1990. ...
- Research articles 2003-11-26
- Managers on the move: should you stay or should you go? Keiron Root looks into the reasons behind recent fund manager moves
- A combination of festive cheer and end of year lethargy meant there was little activity on the fund manager front this month. But after a hectic November in which every fund manager and his wife seemed to have changed jobs, and the prospect of a busy first few months of...
- Research articles 2003-02-01
- Perpetual the fastest growing fund manager.
- Jun 05, 2006 (The Australian Financial Markets Newsletter - INSTO - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Standard & Poor's reports that Perpetual was the fastest-growing fund manager by total investment management in the March 2006 quarter. The Commonwealth Bank Jun 05, 2006 (The Australian Financial Markets...
- Research articles 2006-06-05
