Toll Brothers reported double-digit declines in new home orders, revenue and home prices in its second quarter.
A Wells notice focuses on the firm's "bidding of various financial instruments associated with municipal securities."
Record-setting oil prices are driving investments in Brazil's bustling sugar cane ethanol industry.
The private-equity fund is part of a move to invest in sectors that haven’t been hit by the credit crunch.
California has backed away from a controversial proposal to regulate hedge funds under strong opposition from its hedge fund industry.
Although U.S. investors have poured billions into international stock investments in recent years, most have overlooked international small- and mid-cap stocks.
The market may be drifting, but many of America's 60 million Roman Catholics are sure of the investment path they have chosen: mutual funds guided by Catholic ethical and moral principles.
As fund companies experiment with retirement income solutions, financial advisers and investors are worried about products that are designed to leave participants with a zero balance.
The use of alternative hedge-fund-like strategies within mutual funds was a hot topic of discussion last week at the Investment Company Institute's 50th annual general membership meeting in Washington.
Micro-cap stocks are beaten down to the point where the mutual funds that invest in them are starting to see new opportunities.
Amid concerns about rising energy costs, Firsthand Capital Management Inc. is widening its focus on technology to include alternative energy.
Advisers may see increasing numbers of mutual fund products that include alternative-investment strategies.
Hedge funds gained ground in April, rebounding from a rough March, according to industry indicators.
The mutual fund will hold between 100 and 200 securities and track the MSCI EAFE index.
Target date mutual funds, long criticized for being too conservative to meet their goals, are now being taken to task for taking on too much risk.
The mutual fund industry is facing waves of baby boomers who will retire and a volatile market that has scared many investors, but nothing has the potential to affect the industry more than a Securities and Exchange Commission review under way of Rule 12(b)-1.
In a move clearly aimed at luring breakaway brokers, Fidelity Investments is about to take the wraps off a program intended for brokers who are dually registered as investment advisers.
One culprit driving volatility is the “significant increase in the number and impact of 130/30 funds,” according to the Security Traders Association.
Plus Money and its principal allegedly raised $30 million from approximately 300 investors.
As hurricane season approaches, financial advisers continue to look warily upon catastrophe bonds
