U.S. activist fund builds stake in UBS: paper
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U.S.-based fund manager Harris  Associates has built a $1 billion stake in troubled Swiss  investment bank UBS , the Sunday Times said in an  unsourced report.
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State Street Corp.'s SPDR Trust was the best-selling mutual fund with US investors in August, according to estimates by Financial Research Corp. It was the first time an exchange-traded fund led monthly fund sales.
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Bank of America Corp.  on Monday said it will buy Charles Schwab Corp.'s  U.S. Trust Corp. unit for $3.3 billion to expand in the lucrative business of managing money for the rich.
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ZURICH, Switzerland  -- UBS AG on Thursday posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $11.28 billion, and a loss for the entire year, besieged as other banks were by investments in U.S. subprime mortgages.
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UBS AG is expected to buy Charles Schwab Corp.'s institutional research and trading unit for about $265 million, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday.
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The first U.S.-listed hedge fund soared 89 percent on Friday in a debut that is seen as likely to encourage others to list.
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The coalition of hedge funds that wants to place directors on The New York Times Companyâs board has increased its stake in the company to at least 10 percent of the regular shares, records show.
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UNITED NATIONS, Feb 15 (OneWorld) - Steven Speilberg and human rights groups ratcheted up the pressure on China this week while nearly 100,000 activists turned their sights on Wall Street's biggest investment firms, urging them all to wield their power to help bring peace to the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan.
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Bank of America Corp.'s  private bank business serving rich customers will be named U.S. Trust, marking the first time the company has adopted the name of a business it has bought, the New York Times reported on Monday.
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Strong global stocks and bonds markets  have fueled rapid growth in the $11.1 trillion U.S. mutual fund  industry, despite the wobble in emerging markets and concerns  about overheated Chinese markets in the past year.
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Newspaper: electronic trading operator hires UBS to advise it on possible sale that could fetch $2B. NEW YORK  - Instinet Group Inc.
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Swiss banking group UBS said that it had paid 265 million dollars (219 million euros) to buy SoundView, the capital markets division of online broker Charles Schwab to strengthen its position on the US Nasdaq market.
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Phillip Goldstein, manager of a small  hedge fund company, likes to stretch the definition of activist  investor. He's challenged the managers of closed-end funds and  questioned the judgment of the U.S. markets watchdog, the  Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Federal authorities plan to file criminal and civil charges as early as today against one or more UBS employees for providing traders with advance notice of stock-rating adjustments in exchange for cash payments, according to sources familiar with the case.
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HSBC, the UK's largest bank, is targeted for a shake-up by a high-profile US group of activist investors.
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Phillip Goldstein, manager of a small hedge fund company, likes to stretch the definition of activist investor. He's challenged the managers of closed-end funds and questioned the judgment of the U.S. markets watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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AllianceBernstein Holding and Barclays Global Investors backed pay proposals of executives at companies in which they invest more frequently than other mutual fund firms last year, according to a union study.