When the average investor looks at the biggest alternatives mutual funds, the fund world's most familiar names probably won't show up.
Famed Texas oil investor T. Boone Pickens, who has recently called for greater energy independence by investing in alternative sources, has seen his energy-related hedge funds lose nearly $1 billion this year, The Wall Street Journal reported today.
Named head of fund firm's Investment Product Management and Development
These exchange-traded funds have generated impressive returns to kick off 2012
BlackRock Inc.'s exchange-traded-fund arm has two fixed-income ETFs in the works that will not track underlying indexes, which makes them technically actively managed
Iranians are turning to real estate to protect savings, helping fuel a building boom in the capital, as international sanctions weaken the rial and the government curbs foreign- currency and gold purchases
The new money ended three straight months of redemptions for Total Return fund: Morningstar
A Fidelity equity fund stands to reap $478.4 million on its stake in a pharmaceutical firm
Fund giant launches a new thought leadership microsite aimed at delivering provocative investment ideas
European governments moved toward a second rescue of Greece, calculating that the 130 billion-euro ($172 billion) cost of a fresh bailout is a price worth paying to prevent a default that could shatter the euro area.
World faces the prospect of a 'vicious circle' of deflation: Soros
Fund giant looks to launch first exchange-traded fund since 2003; 'if it's not broke, why fix it?'
Defaults in the $3.7 trillion municipal-bond market this year will again prove Meredith Whitney wrong.
Operating earnings up 13% last year; expenses kept in check
Three years after equities hit rock bottom, large-cap stocks have far outstripped debt funds
Former head of GSAM says U.S. debt the worst best over the next three years
