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ALTERNATIVES AUG 05, 2009
Goldman Sachs facing compensation, derivative inquiries

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., one of the banking industry's top performers, said today that government agencies have asked about its compensation practices and use of credit derivatives.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 04, 2009
AIG Investments close to $300M sale to Crestview

AIG Investments, the asset management arm of American International Group Inc., is close to being sold to a group that includes private equity firm Crestview Partners for $300 million to $400 million, Reuters reported today, citing a source.

MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 04, 2009
Money fund assets fell 6% in 2Q

Assets of money market mutual funds declined by $215 billion, or 6%, in the second quarter, according to Crane Data LLC, a Westborough, Mass.-based research firm.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 04, 2009
Pending home sales index rises again in June

Pending U.S. home sales rose in June for the fifth straight month, another encouraging sign of life for the embattled U.S. housing market, the National Association of Realtors reported today.

ETFS AUG 03, 2009
Galvin demands answers from firms selling inverse and leveraged ETFs

Massachusetts regulators sent subpoenas to four brokerage firms on Friday asking about their sales practices relating to inverse and leveraged exchange traded funds weeks after Edward D. Jones, Ameriprise, LPL and UBS restricting the sale of the products or stopped selling them altogether.

MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 03, 2009
Mutual fund boom bonus: Fees may climb more slowly

Mutual fund assets are on the rise and as a result, investor fees may not go up as much as analysts had expected, according to Chicago-based Morningstar Inc.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 03, 2009
Analysis: Foreclosures stabilize in key states

Even as Americans suffer rising unemployment, foreclosure rates in three states hit hardest by the housing bust — California, Arizona and Florida — stabilized in June, offering hope that the worst of the real estate crisis is over, according to The Associated Press' monthly analysis of economic stress in more than 3,100 U.S. counties.

EMERGING MARKETS JUL 31, 2009
Investors high on emerging markets, while analysts counsel caution

Investors are flocking to emerging markets with the anticipation of hefty returns, though analysts doubt that the performance will last.

ETFS JUL 30, 2009
ETF assets golden in first half of '09

Investors bought more exchange traded funds in the first half of this year than in the comparable time period in 2008, according to Strategic Insight Mutual Fund Research and Consulting LLC.

ETFS JUL 30, 2009
CFTC mulls investment limits on commodities-linked products

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is mulling setting position limits on physical commodities and is questioning whether swaps dealers should remain exempt from position limits.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 30, 2009
Investors boosted mutual fund inflows last week

Investors poured $11.05 billion into mutual funds for the one-week period ended July 22, according to the ICI.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 29, 2009
Mutual funds battle advisers' brand perceptions

There is a disconnect between how some of the largest mutual fund firms' brands are perceived by many advisers and the actual performance of the funds, according to a recent survey conducted by Cogent Research LLC of Cambridge, Mass.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 29, 2009
Former Paine Webber chief vies to buy AIG Advisors

Two private-equity firms with strong ties to retail broker-dealers are the final bidders for the AIG Advisor Group — the network of broker-dealers that houses about 6,000 independent registered reps and investment advisers — and a winner could be determined in the next several days, according to sources.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 29, 2009
Haggling with hedgies: Investors have the upper hand, finally

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.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 28, 2009
Stocks slide as July consumer confidence falls

Jitters about the U.S. economy are putting the stock market rally on hold again.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 28, 2009
Institutions to own majority of mutual fund assets by 2012, report predicts

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.

FIXED INCOME JUL 27, 2009
Worries about influx of supply pressures Treasurys

Prices of government bonds fell today ahead of another round of Treasury auctions as traders worried that the latest issues might be met with weak demand.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 27, 2009
Catastrophe bonds poised for comeback this year, Guy Carpenter & Co. says

Though fewer catastrophe bonds were issued during the first half of 2009, investors may see more of these issuances in the second half of the year as the financial markets stabilize, according to a report from Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC and GC Securities, both of New York.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 27, 2009
June new U.S. home sales rise 11%

New U.S. home sales rose by the largest amount in more than eight years last month, in another sign the housing market is finally bouncing back from the worst downturn in decades.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 26, 2009
Use target date funds the right way

Given last year's investment results, especially in 2010 target date funds, there are many who question whether the target date fund concept itself is fatally flawed.