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SEC warns brokerages to monitor risky products better
ALTERNATIVES AUG 20, 2015
SEC warns brokerages to monitor risky products better

Agency finds a significant number of inappropriate sales.

Guggenheim adds real estate to its smart beta lineup
ALTERNATIVES AUG 20, 2015
Guggenheim adds real estate to its smart beta lineup

First ETF to offer equal-weighted exposure to a REIT index.

ETFs hit the big time as institutional investors' appetite for the funds grow
ETFS AUG 19, 2015
ETFs hit the big time as institutional investors' appetite for the funds grow

Endowments, pensions, foundations like the funds' ability to quickly and easily gain access to indexes or commodities not easily investible.

Investors trimming bets on September interest rate hike
ALTERNATIVES AUG 19, 2015
Investors trimming bets on September interest rate hike

Options prices indicate skepticism but Pimco says Federal Reserve's rate increase bar is 'fairly low.'

EQUITIES AUG 19, 2015
The Fed's quantitative easing experiment gets a failing grade

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> A Fed official put some of the central bank's post-financial crisis actions under a magnifying glass and found they have done little to boost the economy.

Here's why clients are stressing over their fixed-income holdings
FIXED INCOME AUG 19, 2015
Here's why clients are stressing over their fixed-income holdings

Four big behavioral factors that are at play in investors' concerns about rising interest rates.

Private equity manager Blackstone breaks into mutual fund business with First Eagle buy
MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 19, 2015
Private equity manager Blackstone breaks into mutual fund business with First Eagle buy

Fund company ranked in Top 10 most trusted fund firms in recent report.

Third time lucky for ETF entrepreneur with cybersecurity fund
FINTECH AUG 18, 2015
Third time lucky for ETF entrepreneur with cybersecurity fund

Timing is key as fund, with the ticker symbol HACK, launched just before the Sony Pictures computer network was broken into.

Hotels owned by Schorsch's nontraded REIT found to be in disrepair
ALTERNATIVES AUG 18, 2015
Hotels owned by Schorsch's nontraded REIT found to be in disrepair

Safety and maintenance issues found at five hotels owned by American Realty Capital Hospitality Trust.

Publicly traded home-rental firms suffer stock declines as investors grow impatient
ALTERNATIVES AUG 18, 2015
Publicly traded home-rental firms suffer stock declines as investors grow impatient

Landlords backed by private equity shop Blackstone and others avoid capital markets.

Myths about the Investment Company Act on its 75th anniversary
OPINION AUG 18, 2015
Myths about the Investment Company Act on its 75th anniversary

It's time to set straight misconceptions about the law that regulates mutual funds and other investment companies.

Precidian goes back to SEC for approval of active ETF plan
ETFS AUG 18, 2015
Precidian goes back to SEC for approval of active ETF plan

A proposal designed to put actively managed products on par with index funds in the ETF universe by allowing their holdings to be non-transparent is going back in front of securities regulators.

Bill Gross tweaks 'shorts of a lifetime' — causing Janus fund to rise
EQUITIES AUG 17, 2015
Bill Gross tweaks 'shorts of a lifetime' — causing Janus fund to rise

China's Shenzhen Composite Index, having more than doubled in 2015, began declining about a week after the legendary bond manager made a prediction that Chinese stocks were overheated and poised to fall, and it has since plunged about 27%.

Asset managers beat the bushes to woo reclusive family offices
RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 17, 2015
Asset managers beat the bushes to woo reclusive family offices

They trot out celebrity executives, hold conferences and make sweetened investment offers to bring in private wealth to private equity.

How much China is in your fund?
EQUITIES AUG 14, 2015
How much China is in your fund?

Many investors obtain direct exposure to China through diversified emerging market mutual funds and ETFs. Do you know your exposure?

ALTERNATIVES AUG 14, 2015
Forget gold, oil could be on its way back to $100

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The oil guru who predicted last year's rout said $100-a-barrel crude is likely to return within five years as faltering supply fails to meet demand.

Private equity shop Apollo jumps into liquid alts by teaming up with Ivy Investment Management
MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 14, 2015
Private equity shop Apollo jumps into liquid alts by teaming up with Ivy Investment Management

Mutual fund firm plans strategic income and multiasset income funds that will include portion dedicated to total return strategy run by Apollo.

EQUITIES AUG 14, 2015
Time to rethink gold?

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Contrarians, listen up. Janet Yellen's optimism about the U.S. economy is making gold speculators the least bullish on record.

Bill Gross recommended shorting China stocks but didn't pull the trigger
EQUITIES AUG 14, 2015
Bill Gross recommended shorting China stocks but didn't pull the trigger

Bill Gross, who recommended shorting the Chinese stock market last month before it plunged, didn't actually do the trade. Instead he wagered against both the S&amp;P 500 emerging market currencies.

Bill Gross on co-founding Pimco: 'I just wanted to run money and be famous'
FIXED INCOME AUG 14, 2015
Bill Gross on co-founding Pimco: 'I just wanted to run money and be famous'

At Pimco, Bill Gross built a reputation as the world's best bond trader. Now, at Janus Capital, he's managing a much smaller fund &amp;mdash; all while being measured against his younger self.