The March stock market rally left hedge funds in the dust, according to the latest report from Hennessee Group LLC.
Quadrangle Group has confirmed that it has halted fundraising for its third planned fund, which has stalled since last fall when the financial crisis squeezed credit markets in earnest.
Legislation to tax carried-interest compensation at ordinary income tax rates instead of lower capital gains rates was reintroduced today by Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich.
Even Bernie Madoff isn't exempt from the real estate slump.
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin today charged Fairfield Greenwich Advisors LLC and Fairfield Greenwich (Bermuda) Ltd. with fraud in connection with the Bernard Madoff investment scandal.
An index that tracks signed contracts to purchase previously occupied homes rose in February from a record low a month earlier as buyers took advantage of deeply discounted prices and low interest rates.
Even though retired clients have been hobbled by tanking investments, opportunities still await those who dare to try alternative investments, according to experts.
U.S. home prices sank by the sharpest annual rate on record in January, and the pace continues to accelerate, but there were a handful battered metro areas where price declines slowed, according to data released today.
Commercial banks lost $9.2 billion trading derivatives during the fourth quarter as the credit crisis intensified, according to a report released today by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Rates on 30-year mortgages plunged this week to the lowest level on record after the Federal Reserve launched a new effort to assist the staggering U.S. housing market.
New U.S. home sales rebounded unexpectedly last month, but were still the second-worst on record and remained well below last year's levels, according to data released Wednesday.
A government report says U.S. home prices fell 6.3 percent in January from the same month last year.
Sales of previously occupied homes jumped in February by the largest amount in nearly six years as first-time buyers took advantage of deep discounts on foreclosures and other distressed properties.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether hedge funds gave favored employees or investors “preferential redemptions” by allowing them to withdraw money while freezing redemptions for other clients.
U.S. hedge funds are buying stocks for the first time since October, Bloomberg reported today.
A full 20% of the hedging shops that blew up last year were feeder funds for Bernie’s Ponzi scheme that thought they were overseeing $16 billion. They weren’t.
<b>Situation:</b> Under the new tax act, a hefty cash refund is available to so-called “first-time” home buyers.
A key gauge of homebuilders' confidence remained near historic lows in March, as builders saw a drop in prospective homebuyers visiting model homes amid rising job losses and economic fears, according to a survey released Monday.
Angelsoft.net updated its search engine and GlobalBroker.com has launched a web-based market for owners or buyers to sell or to lease commercial real estate.
National Advisors Trust Co. said today that it was expanding the alternative-investment-custody services that it provides to advisers.
