The Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value ETF (GVT), an actively managed exchange traded fund, began trading today on the New York Stock Exchange. Grail Advisors LLC of San Francisco is the ETF’s manager.
Investors are rushing into stocks Monday as surprise increases in pending home sales and construction spending offered the latest signs that the economy is stabilizing.
These are difficult times for the mutual fund industry, which makes consideration of publicly traded fund companies as investments particularly nerve-racking.
As a result of shifting views of high-net-worth and ultrahigh-net-worth investors, financial advisers will have to re-evaluate business practices, including fees, portfolios and investment policies, according to wealth managers and industry observers.
A day before he and his hedge-fund consulting firm were stung by the Securities and Exchange Commission with $815,000 in fines and penalties, a major figure in the hedge fund world started his own effort to change hedge fund audits.
Mutual fund groups groups must adjust to a new, potentially expensive distribution landscape, according to members of a round-table panel of fund executives, financial advisers and industry experts.
The day of reckoning has come for the financial services industry.
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC said today that it plans to close 19 of its current 135 exchange traded funds.
Mutual fund assets grew by 2.3% in March, according to a report released by the Investment Company Institute.
The monthly auctions of 30-year bonds follows Treasury's decision just three months ago to double the frequency of the auctions from four times annually to eight.
A grand jury has indicted a Florida hedge fund manager who disappeared for two weeks before surrendering to face criminal charges.
AdvisorShares Investments LLC appears to have moved a step closer to launching its first actively managed exchange traded fund.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained a court order freezing the assets of a Connecticut hedge fund manager who allegedly bilked investors of $30 million by inflating the size of two of his funds.
Four out of the top 10 largest mutual funds on Doug Fabian’s <a href=http://www.mutualfundlemonlist.com>Lemon List</a> for the first quarter were from Fidelity Investments.
Home prices dropped sharply in February, but for the first time in 25 months the decline was not a record, another sign the housing crisis could be bottoming.
Dealing with the declining value of their clients' homes, financial advisers are adjusting retirement plans and coming up with new ways to compensate for the wealth loss.
A little more than a week after they were first issued, sales of Build America Bonds have reached nearly $10 billion and are climbing.
Investment adviser Hennessee Group LLC and its principal, Charles Gradante, have been charged with securities law violations by the SEC for failing to perform an advertised review and analysis before recommending Bayou Management LLC hedge funds that were later discovered to be a fraud.
Government support of a green economy and the likelihood of rising oil prices are creating opportunities in alternative energy, according to Calvert Asset Management.
Hedge funds posted small gains last month following the rally in the equity market, according to a Morningstar report released today.
