When the real estate cycle turns, the rebound could be more rapid than many think, according to Martin Cohen, the co-chief executive of Cohen & Steers Inc.
Seizing on an anticipated increase in demand for alternative investments, a Greenwich, Conn.-based firm has rolled out an investible hedge-fund-tracking index that offers liquidity and transparency.
Highly secretive Renaissance Technologies Corp., hit by performance problems and huge redemptions in its largest open hedge fund, may concede greater transparency in the strategy for large institutional investors.
Fifteen big banks that dominate worldwide trading of derivatives have committed to greater transparency in a $600 trillion market that regulators say needs stricter oversight to protect the global financial system.
Fairfield Greenwich Advisors LLC and Fairfield Greenwich Ltd. were slapped with a $500,000 fine today and ordered to pay restitution of $8 million to Massachusetts investors who placed their money into a hedge fund that was invested with convicted swindler Bernard L. Madoff.
Hedge funds were outperformed by some of the major market indexes in August but still attracted $4.5 billion in net inflows last month — double the flows recorded in July, according to consulting firms Hennessee Group LLC and Eurekahedge Pte Ltd..
Rydex SGI has taken its alternative investment message to a new medium with the launch of a new website, <a hef=http://www.GetAlts.com>GetAlts.com</a>.
Shares of KKR Financial Holdings LLC rose today after Janney Montgomery Scott Securities analysts upgraded the real estate investment trust to "Market Outperform" from "Market Perform," saying the company's management has improved liquidity and it may restore its dividend soon.
Squeezed by rising bank failures and alarmed by its shrinking insurance fund, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has made it easier for private-equity investors to buy failed institutions, but one prominent analyst believes that the move could lead to even more shuttered banks.
New U.S. home sales surged 9.6 percent in July, rising for the fourth straight month and beating expectations as the housing market marches steadily back from its historic downturn.
Home prices across most of the U.S. have started to rise from the depths of the housing slump, a pivotal trend that will help stabilize the broader economy, according to new figures released today.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission inserted themselves into the debate surrounding controversial, non-traditional exchange traded funds last week — a debate that could harm the entire ETF sector, according to some industry insiders.
A key federal regulator is asking lawmakers to tighten legislation imposing broad new oversight on derivatives by going beyond the Obama administration's proposal in several areas governing the complex financial instruments blamed for hastening the global economic crisis.
Construction of single-family U.S. homes rose 1.7 percent in July, the fifth-straight monthly increase as builders poured foundations at the fastest pace since last October, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
The National Association of Home Builders said Monday its housing market index rose in August to the highest point in more than a year, as homebuyers hurried to take advantage of a federal tax credit before it expires.
The Department of the Treasury last Tuesday sent to Capitol Hill the final piece of its financial regulatory reform legislation, a 115-page bill aimed at reforming regulation of over-the-counter derivatives.
After gaining an average of 13.9% last year, managed-futures funds have come back down to earth this year as their managers sit with cash and look for signs of a discernable market trend.
An American Bar Association task force studying mutual funds' use of derivatives will likely recommend measures to ensure that investors and fund directors are better-informed about the risks associated with the use of the complex financial instruments.
Tremont Group Holdings Inc., which lost more than $3 billion in the Bernard Madoff scam, will auction off its remaining hedge fund assets in an attempt to pay its investors, The Wall Street Journal reported.
