A former Bend police captain and his wife who have been under investigation by the FBI and IRS over their real estate dealings in Oregon and Indiana have been indicted on fraud charges.
Financial advisers to some private-equity funds fear that efforts to reduce systemic risk in the financial markets, a key theme of the massive reform bill signed into law last week, are unfairly targeting them.
Why hedge fund portfolios are defined to a far greater extent by the simple avoidance of a series of classic mistakes.
The hedge fund industry saw investment returns decline by 1.4% in June. That's hardly a banner month, but the hedgies still managed to outperform the broad equity markets, which fell by 5.4% in June.
Managers of private investment partnerships usually get paid both a base management fee and a performance fee. Many times, the performance fee isn't paid in cash, but is instead paid to the manager as an allocation of profits.
Music played on rare violins, violas and cellos brings joy to audiophiles and may also soon bring happiness to the wallets of investors.
Volatility has created new opportunities to invest in risk assets “because they've gotten so cheap.”
New York-based Optima Fund Management, a $6 billion fund of hedge funds, thinks farming is a growing business.
Drawn by tales of fast money in the land of iron condors, retail traders are swarming the futures market. But do they know what they're doing?
Understanding how to use options as a risk-management tool and as a generator of additional income can't hurt.
The rally in bonds from real estate investment trusts that's made property debt the best performer this year is overdone as a slowing economy may threaten their performance, according to Pacific Investment Management Co.
Standard & Poor's Equity Research's fundamental outlook for the health care services industry for the next 12 months is positive.
Two real estate investment trust companies will waive their “internalization fees,” potentially sparking a trend in the REIT marketplace that would bode well for investors.
The Charles Schwab Corp. has reversed course and will allow advisers to hold in custody additional alternative investments.
With the U.S real estate market still struggling to get back on its feet, financial advisers continue to find themselves facing a barrage of questions from anxious clients about everything from depressed home values to whether now is the time to buy or sell property.
Fund firms also trying to help investors manage their emotional response to the current volatility.
Wall Street banks are seeking exemptions to proposed new financial derivatives rules that could shield more than half the trades that should be subject to disclosure, a federal regulator said Thursday.
Retail investors will no longer be able to buy mutual funds from AQR Capital Management without going through a financial adviser, starting Oct. 30.
The swift acquittal of two Bear Stearns executives in the government's criminal case tied to the financial meltdown likely will force prosecutors to rethink the evidence they planned to present in a raft of cases that have yet to go to trial, legal experts say.
At Goldman Sachs' annual stockholders meeting May 7, a group of nuns will raise some uncomfortable issues.
