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.
Federal authorities have arrested six people in a hedge fund insider trading case that they say led to $20 million in illegal profits.
Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers are on trial in one of the few criminal cases brought against Wall Street executives in connection with the collapse of the housing market.
Lionel Pincus, founder and chairman of New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus, has died, according to a spokesman for his longtime partner, Princess Firyal of Jordan. He was 78.
The dismal recent performance by the endowment funds of several Ivy League universities has dimmed the luster of the funds' managers.
Nearly two years after her ouster from Morgan Stanley, Zoe Cruz, the firm's former co-president, is now plotting to launch her own alternative investment shop.
