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ALTERNATIVES SEP 30, 2009
Report: CIT Group again on brink of collapse

CIT Group Inc. shares plunged in premarket trading Wednesday as the commercial lender is reportedly trying to craft an exchange that would cut its debt and offer bondholders an equity stake in the company in a bid to avoid bankruptcy.

ETFS SEP 28, 2009
ETF providers zero in on municipal-bond market

An exchange-traded fund launched last week offers investors access to hard-to-reach segments of the municipal-bond market. Another has been proposed.

ALTERNATIVES SEP 28, 2009
Hedge fund exec plunges to death from Atlantic City escalator

Atlantic City police are investigating how a hedge fund executive fell to his death from an escalator.

ALTERNATIVES SEP 27, 2009
Market-neutral strategies offer way to hedge latest rally

With the S&P 500 up more than 18% since the start of the year and almost 60% from the March 9 market low, it might be easy to make a case for long or even leveraged-long equity exposure.

ALTERNATIVES SEP 27, 2009
Funds of hedge funds are under the microscope

Institutional investors are examining every aspect of their fund-of-hedge-funds portfolios and the managers in charge of them in the wake of the performance debacle of 2008, liquidity problems and the seismic shock of Bernard L. Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme.

FIXED INCOME SEP 27, 2009
Promises, promises: Finra probes B-Ds' retail muni sales practices

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. is investigating whether broker-dealers are meeting their obligations to municipal-bond issuers who seek distribution to retail investors.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES SEP 27, 2009
Ratings agencies under fire over residential-mortgage-backed securities

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 25, 2009
Money fund assets rose to $3.483T last week

Total money market mutual fund assets rose $198 million to $3.483 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 25, 2009
Mutual funds post big numbers as investors bet on rebound

As the third quarter ends, the performance of many mutual funds confirms that investors have regained their taste for risk amid more signs of an economic recovery.

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 25, 2009
Mutual Fund Store unveils income fund for retirees

The Mutual Fund Store LLC, a registered investment adviser with $4.3 billion of assets gathered from offices across the country, announced today it was rolling out a service that provides retirees with a steady income.

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 25, 2009
Going global: Investors hungry for more risk are now looking overseas

Emerging-markets equity and bond funds, along with global bond funds, experienced substantial inflows over the last week, an indication that investors are now moving farther out on the risk curve, according to a report from Emerging Portfolio Fund Research Inc.

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 23, 2009
The Reserve to give back $1B to Primary Fund investors

A money-market mutual fund that held more than $60 billion before it notoriously <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081029/REG/810299994&amp;ht=bruce%20bent>&#8221;broke the buck&quot;</a> a year ago said Wednesday it will hand out $1 billion in a fifth distribution to investors from the fund's remaining assets.

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 23, 2009
Lord Abbett exits bundled 401(k) biz, handing off $1.2B to the Hartford

Lord, Abbett &amp; Co. LLC is exiting the business of offering bundled 401 (k) plans &#8212; and has agreed to transition its nearly $1.2 billion in 401(k) assets to The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 22, 2009
Mass. regulator fighting clawbacks from investors who bailed on The Reserve Primary Fund

Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin's Division of Securities sent a letter yesterday to Judge Paul Gardephe of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to oppose any proposals to &#8220;claw back&#8221; money from investors in The Reserve Primary Fund who withdrew their investment just prior to the fund's closure.

ALTERNATIVES SEP 22, 2009
Regulator urges broad oversight of derivatives

A key regulator on Tuesday urged Congress to go beyond an Obama administration proposal and impose comprehensive oversight on the sprawling, complex market for financial derivatives blamed for worsening the credit crisis last fall

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 22, 2009
Putnam adjusts target date slate, unveils new hybrid strategy

Putnam Investments of Boston today tweaked its slate of target date funds, and unveiled a new hybrid strategy across its platform of retirement fund offerings.

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 20, 2009
John Hussman

Despite the challenges of the epic market downturn of 2008, the $1.1 billion Hussman Strategic Total Return Fund delivered a positive return last year.

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 20, 2009
Bill Gross

When the Pimco Total Return Fund finished 2006 up 3.7% &#8212; trailing the 4.2% average gain of its intermediate-term-bond peer group &#8212; tongues started wagging that legendary portfolio manager William Hunt Gross may have lost his magic touch.

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 20, 2009
William Danoff

Not many mutual fund managers have a 19-year tenure on a fund, and only a handful of them were able to outperform their peers in all three major bear markets of the past two decades.

ETFS SEP 20, 2009
ETFs make "statement'

Talk about state pride.