Hedge funds' recent poor performance, along with a sluggish economy, has finally given investors the upper hand in negotiating fees on these historically high-priced alternative investments.
The current pace of growth in the defined contribution arena could tilt the majority of mutual fund ownership to institutional investors by 2012, according to a report released late yesterday by Cerulli Associates Inc.
How recession-strapped consumers will spend their limited dollars is a question that is perplexing the financial markets and the pricing of consumer-related stocks.
FundQuest Inc. of Boston has expanded the offerings on its managed-accounts platform to include select alternative strategies.
On paper, the case for investing in natural gas is straightforward: It is a clean, largely domestic fuel now selling at 74% below its peak price of a year ago.
Residential real estate prices gained 1.6% in May, representing the largest one-month increase since July 2005, according to an analysis by Integrated Asset Services in Denver.
Global hedge fund assets will return to their 2007 peak level of $2.9 trillion by 2013, according to the latest research from Cerulli Associates Inc. in Boston.
The latest iteration of social and religious investment screens hit the market on the last trading day of June with the launch of the JETS Dow Jones Islamic Market International Index Fund (JVS).
Record levels of stock issuance by public companies over the past several weeks could come back to haunt the market and hurt investors, at least in the near term.
The United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority, in an effort to restore “trust and confidence in the retail-investment market,” has outlined a proposal to ban commission payments by investment management firms.
