Plus: Public pensions will need lots of taxpayer help, this fund keeps beating the S&P, and the dire state of the golf course business
Gold mining stocks continue to leverage rising gold prices.
Mutual fund firms move defensively toward active ETFs.
As broker-dealers move toward uniform commissions to comply with Labor Department rule, investors could end up paying higher prices than in an unregulated environment. <b><i>(More: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/section/fiduciary-focus" target="_blank">The DOL rule from all angles</a>)</i></b>
Plus: The end of hedge fund fees, a mutual fund for the marijuana industry, and the economics of not getting married.
Leaning on technology to streamline the process.
Agency's Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies wants people with a Series 7, 65 or 82, or a CFA, to be eligible to buy unregistered securities.
Investors continue to ignore market hedging strategies.
The REITs are paying distributions to shareholders that exceed cash flow, in some cases by a wide margin.
Massachusetts securities regulator says agents for six B-Ds and an RIA submitted unauthorized proxy votes for nontraded REITs controlled by a Nicholas Schorsch firm.
Move would generate fees and income from 20-year management agreements.
UDF IV also has suspended distributions to shareholders.
Forget 10%, the firm's new business development company has a hard cap on fees and commissions at 8.95% of gross offering proceeds.
The real estate investment trust will seek to sell its assets and return the proceeds to shareholders, pay off its debt and delist from the New York Stock Exchange.
Plus: Gold is investing in monetary chaos, corporate bonds fly off the shelves, and more fuzzy employment math
Real estate-focused exchange traded funds attracted $1.5 billion in new money in June, followed by $1.3 billion the month before, according to FactSet.
Robert A. Stanger & Co. critical of proxies firm has sent out in preparation for possible consolidations.
Robert Froehlich says fact that both acquiring REIT and REIT being acquired have same CFO is a 'manifest conflict of interest.'
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Forty-five years after being barred from the investment industry by the SEC, Donald Conrad was still able to rip off investors.
Little to indicate the ETF industry is fully prepared for a major rush to the exits by investors.
