Marathon Asset Management LP has completed an initial closing of an investment fund established under the Public-Private Investment Program, the Department of the Treasury announced today.
A growing demand for commodities in emerging and developing markets requires a new way of analyzing commodity investment strategies, according to Thomas Samuelson, chief investment officer at Advanced Equities Asset Management.
Swiss Reinsurance Co. Ltd. today issued a $150 million natural-catastrophe bond using the capital markets to protect itself from natural disasters.
There is no longer any question that mutual funds have proved their value to more than 90 million Americans who have invested almost $10 trillion in funds for a variety of reasons.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has introduced custom target date funds to its more than 1 million 401(k) participants, following an unusual selection process.
Interest rates on six-month Treasurys hit their lowest level on record and three-month bills their lowest point in 11 months in Monday's auction of T-bills.
These days, money market funds are investing only the safest securities.
MBIA Insurance Corp. will reinsure a $184 billion portfolio of bonds previously backed by the troubled Financial Guaranty Insurance Co.
SEC has unanimously approved a proposal that would require mutual funds to use computer tags to label key information about fees, performance and strategies.
John Brown told Bloomberg that the insurer would either divide its guarantee business into two entities or raise capital.
Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. wants to split itself into two companies.
An ex-Goldman Sachs adviser in Hong Kong has been barred from the financial services industry for two years after she invested almost $2 million of her client's money on derivatives contracts without approval, regulators said Thursday.
New York Life Insurance Co. is looking to acquire one or more fund companies, according to one of its top executives.
Here are some key individual retirement account items to check on before the end of the year.
Fixed-income investors focused on the direction of interest rates run the risk of making big mistakes, warns portfolio manager John Fox, co-head of fixed income at Gannett Welsh & Kotler LLC.
The following is the text of an email that Bruce Bond, chairman and CEO of Invesco Powershares, sent earlier this week describing his new role:
Milliman Inc. is in discussions with a number of mutual fund companies, insurers and 401(k) plan sponsors to launch a guaranteed-income product that would be backed by a pool of insurers.
New York Life Insurance Co. is looking to acquire one or more fund companies, according to one of the company's top executives.
Assets in the exchange-traded fund industry totaled about $689 billion as of Oct. 30, down 0.8%, or $5.3 billion, from a month earlier, according to a report last week from State Street Global Advisors.
