Foreign institutional investors mainly consist of mutual funds, pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, banks, asset management companies etc.

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The company is based in Silicon Valley and Shanghai, and its clients include worldwide leaders in game software, hardware, and services, as well as hedge funds, media companies, trade associations, and management consulting firms, all of whom have a vested interest in a thorough understanding of the games industry in Southeast Asian and China.

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In financial services it has clients among hedge funds, large banks, news data management firms and insurance companies.

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State Street is one of the leading financial services firm providing investment servicing and management to institutional investors such as mutual funds, insurance companies, corporations and retirement funds in over 100 financial markets across 26 countries around the globe.

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"With banks, funds, securities companies and third party managers successively entering the wealth management space, wealth management competition is becoming white hot, " said Beijing-based National Trust Ltd.

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Over the years, VF Corp. has successfully acquired a number of companies that were underperforming either because of a shortage of funds or stoic management.

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But if managers, especially those of actively managed funds as opposed to index funds, didn't approve of management, they presumably wouldn't be holding continuing stakes in those companies in the first place.

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