All carried-interest distributions from private-equity funds and hedge funds would be taxed as ordinary income instead of capital gains under Obama's proposed budget.
Managed-futures funds, which finished 2008 as one of the best-performing alternative strategies, hit a bump in January.
A client wants to pay off his mortgage with a retirement account distribution and is wondering about the short- and long-term financial ramifications.
Commercial real estate prices plunged 14.9% on average in December from the same month a year ago.
OppenheimerFunds Inc. has elected to shutter its OFI Tremont Core Strategies Hedge Fund and start returning the fund's roughly $100 million in assets to clients.
Prices of existing single-family homes tumbled 18.2% on average in the fourth quarter of 2008, marking the biggest year-over-year price decline in 21 years
Cohen & Steers Inc. has snagged David Edlin from AllianceBernstein Investments Inc. to be its new national sales manager, the company announced this morning.
Concerned about liability related to hedge funds, Schwab is telling registered investment advisers that it will no longer accept custody of alternative assets.
Poor performance by hedge funds has driven some brokerage firms to reduce services to the funds, including financing, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
While equity markets have shown little signs of rebounding, hedge fund strategies considerably improved their performance last month.
The current market turbulence combined with some spectacular scandals has not yet jarred institutional investors from their investment strategies.
A brutal 2008 will mean that a majority of Asian hedge funds will not charge performance fees, according to published reports.
A stringent plan to regulate hedge funds that is backed by Obama administration aide Paul Volcker won the support today of an influential Democratic senator.
When it comes to regulatory oversight of the hedge funds industry, it is no longer a question of if it will happen but when, according to industry representatives speaking today at a conference in Key Biscayne, Fla.
The new hedge fund reality places even greater emphasis on due diligence, but it doesn’t mean that investors should start ignoring or abandoning the alternative asset class.
The hedge-fund-of-funds sector in Europe may lose three-quarters of its assets, compared with the beginning of 2008.
Morningstar hedge fund database will become the foundation for a research platform that gives qualified investors a closer look at more than 7,500 hedge funds.
Hedge funds appear to be moving back into positive territory after wrapping up one of the industry’s worst years on record.
Regulators and members of the futures industry met before the House Agriculture Committee to debate the regulation of credit default swaps and other derivatives.
Homebuyers took advantage of low mortgage rates and falling home prices in December as pending sales of existing homes shot up more than 6% from the previous month.
