In another sign that the commercial property market may have bottomed out, the Moody's/REAL Commercial Property Price Index showed a 1% gain in November.
Hedge funds are losing talent to university endowments, sovereign wealth funds and even to the Securities and Exchange Commission, of all places, according to a survey released this week by executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles.
Hedge fund industry performance in 2009 was the best in a decade, according to Hedge Fund Research. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index returned 20.04% for the year ended Dec. 31, the industry's highest since the 31.29% return of the index in 1999.
Investment manager BlackRock said Tuesday that it bought Helix Financial Group LLC, a commercial real estate advisory firm, for an undisclosed amount.
A billionaire hedge fund manager charged in a $25 million insider trading case now faces a lawsuit saying he helped finance Sri Lankan militants notorious for suicide bombings.
Real estate money managers are joining private-equity firms in the line to buy failed banks.
After a long hibernation, the lords of leveraged buyouts are up and about.
Whether it is to help lock in last year's gains or to put to better use some of the more than $3 trillion parked in money market funds, the creative use of options may be just the tool that finanical advisers need.
Many real estate funds sold to institutional investors are charging too much, according to consultant Towers Watson & Co.
A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $100 million in restitution for masterminding what a judge described as one of the biggest real estate frauds in state history.
BNY Mellon Asset Management acquired a 20% minority interest in Siguler Guff, a New York-based multistrategy private equity firm with roughly $8 billion in assets under management and committed capital.
The hedge fund industry's premier trade group, the Managed Funds Association, has decided to ban the media from its upcoming annual conference in Key Biscayne, Fla.
Hedge fund operator Raj Rajaratnam and a codefendant pleaded not guilty Monday to charges they were major players in a scheme that used inside information to make stock trades that generated millions of dollars in profits.
Federal prosecutors say criminal charges have been filed against 14 people, including attorneys and Wall Street professionals, in a widening $25 million insider trading case.
Regardless of the hedge fund industry's hoopla, a lot of investors are paying too much for the performance they're getting, or hope to get, from alternative strategies.
Property prices in Nairobi are soaring, and Somali pirates are getting the blame. The hike in real estate prices in the Kenyan capital has prompted a public outcry and a government investigation this month into property owned by foreigners.
If ever there was a case against an investment strategy limited to traditional allocations to stocks and bonds, it was the global financial market meltdown that unfolded last fall.
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday they will file new charges against billionaire hedge fund operator Raj Rajaratnam alleging he made at least $36 million from trades based on insider information, double what the government previously believed.
