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BNY’s opportunities; Amundi shines; ASI has a long memory; Genetic algorithms; Letter soup; A new Chinese champion; Mobius on Trump; advertising and much more.
Asia’s growing private wealth and pool of tech-savvy financial professionals should make it the world’s investment hub, but AI threatens industry jobs, according to a CFA Institute survey report.
ESG investing in China is largely driven by international investors, as domestic fund managers and institutions are still trying to understand the concept, according to a CFA report.
The opening of China’s investment industry has resulted in a 21% year-on-year increase in mainland Chinese exam-takers.
Chinese candidates taking the CFA exam increased 49% to 50,000 this year, an indicator of China’s investment sector growth, according to the CFA Institute.
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The number of would-be investment managers in China entering the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) programme reached a record high in 2016, overtaking new registrations from the US for the first time, latest figures from the CFA institute show.
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