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Norway’s biggest private investor, Storebrand Property Management ASA, says its pressure campaign on Brazil to protect the Amazon forest is having a “genuine effect.” The money manager has now brought together 34 funds with over $4.6 trillion in possessions to try to get Brazil to end policies that damage the …

Only a year ago Noah Holdings Ltd. was a poster child for the dangers of hiding in China’s $8 trillion shadow banking system. Now it’s at the fore of a historic shift in Chinese asset management, one that policymakers state is minimizing financial threats on the planet’s second-largest economy. At …

The S&P 500 index had stayed in a relatively tight range since breaking out over resistance at 3,185 in mid-July– till Monday. It looks like it’s lastly attempting for another upside breakout. This recent trading variety has had the result of lowering recognized volatility (more about that later). Now that …