Hedge funds averaged positive returns in May after posting the highest return in more than five years in April, according to estimates released yesterday by HedgeFund.net.
The insurer yesterday received preliminary clearance to accept approximately $3.4 billion in federal aid.
More than 321,000 households received at least one foreclosure-related notice last month — 18 percent more than a year earlier — but the smallest annual gain since June 2006.
The recent popularity of small-cap mutual funds may be a sign that recession is giving way to recovery.
The number of U.S. households on the verge of losing their homes dipped in May from April, and the annual increase was the smallest in three years.
Barclays Global Investors North Asia Ltd. announced today that iShares, the firm’s exchange traded fund unit, has expanded its Asia management team.
Retirees would be able to take a portion of their retirement savings in the form of an annuity if a bill introduced today by Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., were passed into law.
The ETFs are the RP Growth ETF, RP Focused Large Cap Growth ETF, RP Technology ETF, and RP Financials ETF. They are expected to carry a 0.89% expense ratio, and begin trading on Sept. 1.
Natixis Global Associates, the distribution arm of Natixis Global Asset Management, today announced that it will close the Vaughan Nelson Small Cap Value Fund (NEFJX) to new investors, effective July 31.
Making a case for long term care insurance can be a challenge under any circumstances.
Mindful of past disasters with long term care insurers, financial advisers have found ways to balance financial viability with quality benefits.
Advisers are struggling to get clients — especially baby boomers — to think about funding long term care in the face of depleted investment portfolios.
The stellar returns that junk bond funds are generating are unsustainable and will come to an end, fund managers and financial advisers agree, but they disagree on when that will be.
Private-equity firms are turning to infrastructure investing now that the credit crisis and deepening recession have put their traditional leveraged-buyout businesses into suspended animation.
Certificates of deposit that link investment returns to stock market indexes are helping prop up the sagging structured-products industry.
Mutual fund managers weary of trying to spin negative trailing returns are suggesting that investors look at rolling returns, but those are often difficult to obtain and can be misleading, some say.
After being written off as an asset class just a few short months ago, emerging-markets equities are back.
A New York Congressman has introduced a bill that will try to preserve state authority over indexed annuities, pushing back against a recent rule from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Bermuda-based reinsurer RenaissanceRe Holdings Inc. said today that it will buy Spectrum Partners Ltd. to help it operate better in London and meet increased demand.
Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, questioned regulators and representatives of the long term care insurance industry at a committee hearing yesterday and focused on the financial viability of LTC insurers.
