Although five exchanges will soon vie to clear credit default swap trades in Europe and the United States, the number is likely to dwindle to one on each side of the Atlantic in the next couple of years, according to analysts and industry participants.
The SEC today charged an unregistered hedge fund with operating a large-scale scheme that it said defrauded hundreds of investors millions of dollars.
Look for markets to continue November's upward climb and finish the year strongly.
Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, assets of the largest managers of real estate investment trusts were first to feel the shock wave of volatile world markets.
The real estate boom and bust is hanging over many independent broker-dealers and their financial advisers as the market for non-traded REITs soured this year.
Commercial real estate is now a bargain, and the widely expected drop in commercial property values may not occur, according to a well-known real estate analyst.
Despite troubling signs that investors aren't sold on new real estate investment trusts that plan to purchase distressed-mortgage assets — in many cases with the help of government financing — mutual fund managers still intend to take a close look at them.
Marathon Asset Management LP has completed an initial closing of an investment fund established under the Public-Private Investment Program, the Department of the Treasury announced today.
An ex-Goldman Sachs adviser in Hong Kong has been barred from the financial services industry for two years after she invested almost $2 million of her client's money on derivatives contracts without approval, regulators said Thursday.
Lee Scott, former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. CEO and president, has joined the private equity firm Solamere Capital as an operating partner and a member of its investment committee.
A German man who founded the hedge fund group K1 was arrested by police amid an investigation into possible fraud that may total some euro200 million ($295.7 million), prosecutors said Thursday.
ING is looking to sell its $92.4 billion global real estate business and BlackRock Inc. has emerged as one of the potential buyers, according to industry sources
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee has voted to regulate for the first time hedge funds and other large pools of capital.
Real estate money managers are seeing the equity in their property investments begin to dissolve.
Busting billionaire hedge fund manager <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20091016/FREE/910169991&ht=galleon> Raj Rajaratnam last week </a> is a sign that the Securities and Exchange Commission is paying much closer attention to insider-trading rings , according to a former SEC enforcer-turned whistleblower.
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit against Vice President Joe Biden's youngest son and brother over their 2006 purchase of a hedge fund firm, saying an investor failed to be specific enough in claiming that they underhandedly shoehorned him out of the deal.
One REIT sponsor attracting attention recently from independent broker-dealers is The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies Inc., which sponsors five publicly traded and non-traded REITs.
