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ALTERNATIVES JUL 22, 2009
Hedge funds up 9.1% in second quarter

Hedge funds came back with a vengeance during the three-month period ending June 30, posting the industry's best performance since the fourth quarter of 1999, according to Hedge Fund Research Inc. in Chicago.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 22, 2009
FundQuest adds alternatives to SMA platform

FundQuest Inc. of Boston has expanded the offerings on its managed-accounts platform to include select alternative strategies.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2009
U.S. markets ranked low on integrity by financial professionals stateside and abroad

Hedge fund managers and corporate boards received low marks with regard to ethical behavior in a recent survey of financial-industry professionals.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 19, 2009
Ameriprise to pay $17.3M to settle case with SEC

Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. has agreed to pay $17.3 million to settle charges that it received nearly $31 million in undisclosed compensation for selling its brokerage customers real estate investment trusts between 2000 and 2004, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 19, 2009
Fund liquidations, mergers on rise

The market's decline is taking its toll on mutual funds.

ETFS JUL 19, 2009
Exchange traded products for commodities take hit

The reputation of exchange traded products that give investors access to commodities took a hit this month when one of the largest exchange traded commodities pools — the $3.61 billion U.S. Natural Gas Fund LP (UNG) — was forced to stop issuing new shares.

FIXED INCOME JUL 19, 2009
Municipal bonds thrive despite states' deep economic woes

Although state and local governments across the country face staggering budget deficits, their struggles are having little effect on municipal-bond prices.

RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 19, 2009
Compensation: SEC mandate called too broad

Financial advisers are troubled by an administration proposal that would allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to ban commissions and take other sweeping actions regarding their fees.

ETFS JUL 19, 2009
Natural gas seen as too cheap to ignore

On paper, the case for investing in natural gas is straightforward: It is a clean, largely domestic fuel now selling at 74% below its peak price of a year ago.

ETFS JUL 17, 2009
Schwab's offering of nine new ETFs may be 'late to the game'

Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. has filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer nine exchange traded funds.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 17, 2009
SEC chairman backs bill to let B-Ds compete on mutual fund sale commissions

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro has called on Congress to allow broker-dealers to compete on commissions they charge when they sell mutual fund shares.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 17, 2009
June housing construction rises unexpectedly

Construction of new U.S. homes rose in June to the highest level in seven months, a sign builders are starting to regain confidence as they emerge from the housing bust.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 16, 2009
Foreclosures rise 15% in first half of 2009

The number of U.S. households on the verge of losing their homes soared by nearly 15 percent in the first half of the year as more people lost their jobs and were unable to pay their monthly mortgage bills.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 14, 2009
Investors stampede, cautiously, back into mutual funds

Investors returned to mutual funds en masse during the second quarter, but appear to be proceeding with caution when it comes to riskier funds, according to a new report from Strategic Insight Mutual Fund Research and Consulting LLC.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 14, 2009
Stock rally lifts target date funds, but they still lag year-over-year

The stock rally that begin in March boosted target date funds to an average return of 15.5% in the second quarter, ending a dismal string of six negative consecutive quarters, according to a report released today.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 14, 2009
Investors return to mutual funds in 2nd quarter

Investors shook off some of their caution in this year's second quarter amid a rising market, shifting the largest amount into stock and bond mutual funds in more than two years, a fund industry consultant reported today.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 14, 2009
Real estate prices posted gain in May

Residential real estate prices gained 1.6% in May, representing the largest one-month increase since July 2005, according to an analysis by Integrated Asset Services in Denver.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 14, 2009
Hedge fund assets not likely to return to 2007 peak until 2013, Cerulli says

Global hedge fund assets will return to their 2007 peak level of $2.9 trillion by 2013, according to the latest research from Cerulli Associates Inc. in Boston.

FIXED INCOME JUL 13, 2009
'Angels' fall as bond issuers are downgraded to junk

Last month, 15 bond issuers were downgraded to speculative grade (BB+ and lower) from investment grade (BBB- and higher), the third-highest monthly tally of “fallen angels” since Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC began keeping track in 1987, according to a report today from the New York-based rating agency.

ETFS JUL 12, 2009
Finra's ETF notice angers ICI, firms