The mutual fund industry will let its hair down this year, introducing ever more exotic, hedge-fund-like products that make even greater use of complicated vehicles such as derivatives, according to some industry experts.
A woman's place is in the House and Senate, said the late feminist and congresswoman Bella Abzug. Today, include the marketplace as well.
The basic premise behind the management of the Managers AMG Essex Small/Microcap Growth Fund (MBRSX) is finding good companies that few other analysts have yet to identify as prospects.
The inflows slowed substantially as investors poured more money into exchange traded funds.
Jackson National Life Insurance Co. today added a pair of new portfolios to its retail mutual fund lineup.
Asset levels hit $13 trillion in December, gaining approximately $1.8 trillion from the beginning of the year.
Pacificor has named portfolio manager Andy Mitchell to helm the hedge fund after Michael B. Klein, former CEO, died after his private plane crashed in Panama on Sunday.
The Vanguard Group has launched ETFs on the NYSE Arca today, which seek to track three MSCI Indexes.
Burned in the aftermath of Bear Stearns’ two collapsed hedge funds, Barclays has sued the firm and a pair of its fund managers.
Evergreen Investment Management has launched three new diversity equity mutual funds.
The number of hedge fund launches and liquidations are off at a 25% annual rate for the second consecutive year, according to HFR.
The first U.S.-listed Chinese Real Estate ETF gives investors exposure to the Chinese real restate market.
CEO and CIO were the best-compensated positions at hedge funds of funds in 2007, according to an Infovest21 survey.
Due to negative returns, investors are pulling money out of mutual funds that invest in real estate investment trusts, but financial advisers believe that now is not the time to trim holdings.
Tudor Investment clients have pulled more than $1 billion from its Raptor hedge fund after it fell 8.5% this year.
While mutual funds continue to garner the lion's share of investment assets, their growth is trailing that of exchange traded assets and separately managed accounts.
Brokers and other industry observers are steaming over a new study that shows that investors who buy load funds do far worse than the funds themselves.
The hedge fund run by RK Capital Management of London lost 22% in November as copper prices fell.
Greenwich reported significantly smaller losses than the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq indexes.
