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from Global Investing:
Survival of the fattest?
Is there room only for the biggest, most aggressively-marketed funds in crisis-hit Europe?
Europe's ten best-selling funds have attracted nearly a third of net sales across bonds, equity and mixed assets so far this year, as the grey bars show in the following chart from Thomson Reuters' fund research firm Lipper.
TEN MOST SUCCESSFUL FUNDS' NET SALES AS A PROPORTION OF ALL SALES
The numbers -- which exclude ETFs -- are even more staggering if looking at at the concentration of sales into groups/companies, rather than at fund level.
Then, data compiled by Fitch ratings using Lipper shows that over the past three years Europe's ten biggest firms have attracted around 80 percent of flows into fixed income, equity and mixed assets.
from Reuters Money:
Lazy portfolios win again in 2010
Those of you who diligently invest from reclining chairs with passive portfolios, rejoice! You had another good year without doing much of anything.
Not only did you get more out of life by not watching business TV channels, stock prices on your smartphone or fretting over the latest blip on Wall Street, you built up your retirement portfolio without much effort.
from Reuters Money:
Green investing with mutual funds
Tom Roseen is the U.S. and Latin America Research Manager at Lipper -- a Thomson Reuters company that supplies mutual fund information, fund ratings, fund analytical tools and fund commentary.
Even if you don’t buy into the global warming argument, you’re probably still interested in finding ways to reduce your gas and oil costs, keep the air breathable for you and your family, and benefit from the global momentum to clean up our planet. So are others.
Morning line-up: Greek crisis, Japan’s public pension fund
Hedge funds see Greek debt crisis spread - WSJ
European Monetary Fund debate overlooks real problems - Citywire
World’s biggest pension fund remains conservative – Reuters
