The swift acquittal of two Bear Stearns executives in the government's criminal case tied to the financial meltdown likely will force prosecutors to rethink the evidence they planned to present in a raft of cases that have yet to go to trial, legal experts say.
Bridget A. Macaskill, president and COO of First Eagle Investment Management, was also named CEO.
Commission-free ETFs are good, but they may not be best.
London calling: Fund advocacy group sets up international body in the U.K.
At Goldman Sachs' annual stockholders meeting May 7, a group of nuns will raise some uncomfortable issues.
The value of Warren Buffett's options to buy Goldman Sachs Group Inc. shares dropped by $950 million after regulators sued the bank for misleading clients on the sale of securities tied to the subprime mortgage market.
TIAA-CREF aims to add to its $2 billion holdings of farmland to help diversify its portfolio and hedge against inflation, said the pension-fund manager's director for private-equity investments in agriculture.
New York has earned the dubious honor of being the nation's leader in mortgage fraud last year, according to a report from the LexisNexis Mortgage Asset Research Institute.
While executives of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. were getting grilled on Capitol Hill about deals involving mortgage-related securities, another division of the company quietly made headlines of a different sort.
The Treasury market is trading in a narrow range Thursday as investors balance European debt concerns with signs of an improving U.S. economy.
Mohamed El-Erian says that today's nonfarm payrolls report demonstrates a “tug of war” between cyclical and structural factors. His take? The second half of 2010 will be more important that the first
Banks with strong balance sheets are flying lazy circles over weaker rivals. And with 700 banks on the FDIC's worry list, there's plenty of stragglers to go after
The professor of economics at Yale University, and the author of "Irrational Exuberance" sits down with WealthTrack's Consuelo Mack.
Count mutual funds and their investors among the big losers in the legal battle between the SEC and The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s broker-dealer unit.
A handful of big fund companies are revamping their target date offerings in hopes of limiting risk — and preventing another major blowup.
Whenever the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System decides to start raising interest rates, investors should look to the technology and health care sectors as the biggest likely beneficiaries, according to new research from Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC.
If combatants in the debate over target date fund investment approaches thought that Morningstar Inc. could provide a tiebreaker, they were out of luck.
Uri Landesman, head of global growth at ING Investment Management Americas, has moved over to the hedge fund arena as president of Platinum Partners LP, a $500 million hedge fund boutique.
Higher federal taxes, coupled with a rising stock market, threaten to hit U.S. fund shareholders particularly hard.
