Global hedge fund assets will return to their 2007 peak level of $2.9 trillion by 2013, according to the latest research from Cerulli Associates Inc. in Boston.
Residential real estate prices gained 1.6% in May, representing the largest one-month increase since July 2005, according to an analysis by Integrated Asset Services in Denver.
The latest iteration of social and religious investment screens hit the market on the last trading day of June with the launch of the JETS Dow Jones Islamic Market International Index Fund (JVS).
Record levels of stock issuance by public companies over the past several weeks could come back to haunt the market and hurt investors, at least in the near term.
The United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority, in an effort to restore “trust and confidence in the retail-investment market,” has outlined a proposal to ban commission payments by investment management firms.
Disclosure of specific environmental, social and corporate governance issues was seen as the major challenge facing socially conscious investors in emerging-market companies, according to a survey of institutional investors.
A financial planning firm has settled all but one claim related to an embezzlement scheme conducted by a rogue adviser over an eight-year period ending in March 2008.
For as long as mutual funds have been able to sell stocks short, there have been attempts to bring more-sophisticated hedge fund strategies to the mutual fund world. But it is rare for a hedge fund to undergo a complete transformation into a mutual fund.
Hedge funds produced some solid numbers in May, according to the latest report from Morningstar Inc. in Chicago.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, a unit of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has launched a fund designed to help investors take advantage of the fast-changing credit markets.
