Disclosure of specific environmental, social and corporate governance issues was seen as the major challenge facing socially conscious investors in emerging-market companies, according to a survey of institutional investors.
A financial planning firm has settled all but one claim related to an embezzlement scheme conducted by a rogue adviser over an eight-year period ending in March 2008.
For as long as mutual funds have been able to sell stocks short, there have been attempts to bring more-sophisticated hedge fund strategies to the mutual fund world. But it is rare for a hedge fund to undergo a complete transformation into a mutual fund.
Hedge funds produced some solid numbers in May, according to the latest report from Morningstar Inc. in Chicago.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, a unit of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has launched a fund designed to help investors take advantage of the fast-changing credit markets.
Certificates of deposit that link investment returns to stock market indexes are helping prop up the sagging structured-products industry.
ProShare Advisors LLC is extending its dominance of the leveraged exchange traded funds market with the launch of four strategies, the company announced today.
If proposed cap-and-trade legislation aimed at restricting corporate carbon emissions is passed, advisers and investors will have to re-evaluate companies on an individual basis, as the real-money effects of this law would vary dramatically from firm to firm, according a new research report.
In an era of unprecedented dividend cuts, money managers and financial advisers are stepping up their due diligence when searching for income.
As might have been expected, the extreme nature of the economic downturn continues to spawn ways for investors to navigate the financial markets.
