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The volume of residential mortgage applications was essentially unchanged for the week ended Dec. 26, even as the interest rates charged on mortgages continued to decline, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association of Washington.
Hedge fund GLG Partners yesterday announced that it will temporarily stop paying a quarterly dividend.
Home prices in the 20 largest U.S. cities fell 18% in October, a record year-over-year decline.
IndyMac Bancorp Inc. is close to being sold to a consortium of private-equity and hedge fund firms in a deal that will be partially financed by the federal government, people involved with the deal told The New York Times.
Global bond underwriting activity declined by 29% in 2008 to $4.33 billion, the lowest level since 2000, according to data from Dealogic Holdings PLC of London.
Staff at the SEC’s Division of Enforcement has informed Reserve Management that it intends to recommend that the SEC bring an enforcement action against the company for violating federal securities laws.
Rising unemployment and volatility in the stock market continued to pull down the troubled housing market as sales of existing homes tumbled 10.6% in November from the same period a year earlier.
Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services today lowered its counterparty credit and financial ratings on Nationwide Financial, the life insurance division of Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., to A+, from AA-.
Tremont Group Holdings, which is owned by OppenheimerFunds Inc., a subsidiary of Massachusetts Mutual, had $3.3 billion invested with Mr. Madoff — more than half of its total $5.8 billion under management.
Apartment real estate investment trusts, which have been outperforming many of their real estate peers in 2008, are expected to take a hit in 2009 as rising unemployment will likely cause both demand and rents to decline.
Hedge fund liquidations outpaced hedge fund launches during the third quarter, offering more solid evidence that the weakened state of the global economy is taking its toll on the $1.6 trillion hedge fund industry.
More than 7% of 401(k) assets were invested in target date funds at the end of 2007 and 25% of 401(k) participants held the funds, according to an analysis released today.
Homebuilder Lennar Corp. posted a loss in its fiscal fourth quarter that was significantly smaller than last year’s record loss, but executives at the Miami company have yet to see signs that the troubled housing industry has bottomed.
Mutual fund assets will remain in decline unless regulations put them on equal footing with other investment vehicles, such as ETFs, according to a study released this week by Celent, a Boston-based research and consulting firm.
The Managed Funds Association, the Washington-based organization that represents the hedge fund industry, announced its support for Mary Schapiro as the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Gary Gensler, who will head-up the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst Andrew Wessel has raised earnings estimates and price targets on several mortgage real estate investment trusts in the wake of the Fed’s latest rate cut.
Net outflows were down 63% across the mutual fund industry in November, but most money managers still bled billions in assets, according to research released last week by Morningstar Inc.
Axa SA of Paris, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Springfield and Swiss Reinsurance Co., as well as other all-star companies, have also been exposed to Mr. Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
Real estate valuations are expected to fall next year, with the low point in the cycle expected in 2010, according to LaSalle Investment Management’s Investment Strategy Annual, a comprehensive survey of global real estate markets.
