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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Joe Feshbach, who with brothers Matthew and Kurt ran one of the most high-profile short-selling hedge funds of the 1980s, is back. This time, instead of betting against companies, a new hedge fund he’s starting —…
Tax is the driving force behind ‘offshore’, but for the great majority of well-off individuals considering offshore investment, tax is not directly an issue. They reside in high-tax areas such as the EU, the US, Canada or Japan, they pay…
BOSTON – Exchange-traded funds that invest in widely-held S&P 500 companies can look markedly different, depending on how much they allocate to individual stocks. The Rydex S&P Equal Weight ETF (RSP) invests the same amount — 0.20 percent — in…
BEIJING, Feb. 23 — The mainland’s first exchange-traded fund, or ETF starts trading Wednesday on the Shanghai bourse. The move is aimed at helping to develop the nation’s fledgling stock markets. More than six billion units of Shanghai 50 ETF’s…
Integration of JPMorgan Funds and One Group Funds Creates 5th Largest Fund Family in the U.S. NEW YORK, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — JPMorgan Asset Management (NYSE: JPM – News) today announced the official completion of the integration between JPMorgan Funds…
THE Isle of Man is planning to increase its already large number of tax exiles by imposing a cap on income tax. Treasury Minister Allan Bell said he wanted to cap the liabilities in order to encourage further business opportunities…
TORONTO–Feb. 15, 2005–BluMont Capital Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BCC) has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, BluMont Capital Corporation (“BluMont”) has launched an offshore version of its BluMont Hirsch Long/Short Fund (the “Fund”), which employs a Canadian long/short equity hedge strategy that was…
According to predictions from the Forrester Research Centre, the number of Europeans using online brokerage services to build a nest egg will almost double from 5 million in 2003 to nearly 10 million by 2007. Both traditional banks as well…
A new investment scheme (Bulgarian Property Fund) has been launched in the United Kingdom designed to mitigate the effects of inheritance tax by investing in the Bulgarian property market, it has been reported. According to the Daily Telegraph, the Black…
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The US Debt Clock has released another provocative Secret Window poster, and this time the New Money Revolution delivers its message through the simplest financial question imaginable. The headline reads: KID MONEY LOGIC Standing on…