A hedge fund manager testified that a Hollywood private detective once offered to have a movie producer killed for him.
As with all of the firm's funds, socially-conscious investing criteria -- including environmental, social and governance considerations — will be given priority.
Equity REITs posted total returns, including dividends, of 1.4%, while all REITs were down slightly at 0.42%.
Last month, there were 791 new bond issues valued at $39 billion, according to Thompson Financial.
The Charles Schwab Corp.'s largest bond fund has lost more than 80% of its assets over the past 10 months as investors have fled the mortgage-backed securities in which it invested heavily.
The fight against global warming is making carbon emissions the hot new commodity.
The hedge fund has agreed to buy a 50% stake in the New York-based credit specialist fund manager Ore Hill Partners.
In a break with the previous 10 months, investors poured $3.3 billion more into domestic stock funds in February than they took out.
Vanguard announced several reassignments of portfolio managers in its fixed income and money market funds.
The London hedge fund manager projects net management fee income to grow 15% from the year-ago period.
PowerShares Global Nuclear Energy Portfolio is designed to track the overall performance of companies in the nuclear energy industry.
The FTSE Group and Conflict Securities Advisory Group have teamed up to roll out the Terror-Free Index Series.
Roving reporter Aaron Siegel quizzed conference attendees on their views on finance ... and the NCAA tournament.
SSgA launched a new ETF that tracks Deutsche Bank’s DB Global Government ex-U.S. Inflation-Linked Bond Capped index.
Assets managed in nearly 10,000 hedge funds totaled $2.16 trillion as of Dec. 31, estimated researchers at Credit Agricole Structured Asset Management in a new report.
AMEX has launched the Bear Stearns Current Yield Fund today, touting it as the the first actively-managed ETF to hit the market.
Even as the financial services industry scurries to provide advisers with better retirement income vehicles, advisers continue to criticize the new products.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. of New York is cutting its four retail divisions down to two, creating a South/West division and a Northeast/Central division.
Educating financial advisers about leveraged-index funds is one goal that Dan O'Neill embraced when he took over last month as Direxion Funds' chief executive.
