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There’s a line of argument in the financial press that suggests that active money management is dying, a victim of high fees and underperformance versus low-cost indexing that captures average market returns. Newsflash: This is anything but the case. Active investing still dominates asset management around the world, and less than “18 percent of the global stock market is owned ...

Bloomberg US stocks halted the longest slide since March and the dollar was little changed after hitting a 14-month high as global markets steadied in the wake of Monday’s Turkey-induced turmoil. Crude climbed with gold and Treasuries fell. The S&P 500 Index advanced for the first time in five days amid thin summer trading. Small-cap shares were particularly strong, with ...

Bloomberg Cboe Global Markets Inc. wants to be the first to list a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, though there’s still a lot of work needed to win approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. “As we chip away at their issues to make them less concerned, at some point they’ll be comfortable with an ETF,” Chris Concannon, the Chicago-based exchange ...

Bloomberg There’s not a moment of respite for India’s inflation-targeting central bank. Just when gains in consumer prices eased, the Turkish lira-led sell-off in emerging-market currencies has renewed an onslaught on the rupee, pushing it to a record low and possibly demanding more rate action from the Reserve Bank of India. The rupee dropped to as low as 70.08 per ...

Bloomberg A jump in mortgages and a recovery in Saudi Arabia’s economy may help Al Rajhi Bank, the kingdom’s second-biggest lender, reverse a decline in lending. Overall lending may improve to show “low single-digit” growth this year and increase to match historical levels of expanding in mid-single digits from 2019, Chief Executive Officer Steve Berta mini said in an interview ...

Bloomberg About six months after UBS Group AG decided to merge its wealth management businesses into one super-unit, rival Credit Suisse Group AG is said to be taking a different approach. The bank plans to split its key international private banking unit into seven regions from four, with each having its own management and greater decision-making power, according to people ...

MANAMA / Emirates Business Ithmaar Holding BSC, a Bahrain-based financial institution, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ithmaar Bank BSC, a Bahrain-based Islamic retail bank, each announced their financial results for the first half of 2018 with both reporting profits for the period. The announcement by the Ithmaar Holding Chairman His Royal Highness Prince Amr Al Faisal, who is also the Ithmaar ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. retail clients who don’t live in the US will no longer be able to keep investment accounts as the bank shuts a business that it’s operated for decades. “After careful review, we’ve decided to no longer service Chase retail investment accounts to non-US residents,” said Elizabeth Seymour, a JPMorgan spokeswoman. “This decision allows us to ...

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. is restructuring its consumer-banking operation in a shake-up that includes the departure of its global credit-card chief. Judson Linville, who ran the world’s largest portfolio of credit-card loans, is leaving as the bank merges that business with its wealth and retail units in the US, according to an internal memo from Stephen Bird, who leads Citigroup’s global ...

Bloomberg Jet Airways India Ltd.’s lenders are reluctant to extend additional loans to the cash-strapped airline ahead of a key report by the company’s financial auditor, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. India’s biggest full-service carrier, part-owned by Etihad Airways PJSC, had approached banks for emergency funding but the lenders prefer that the company raises money from ...