The ICCR has compiled “climate-risk profiles” on more than 150 companies that are the subjects of 2009 shareholder resolutions.
Hedge funds appear to be moving back into positive territory after wrapping up one of the industry’s worst years on record.
Regulators and members of the futures industry met before the House Agriculture Committee to debate the regulation of credit default swaps and other derivatives.
Homebuyers took advantage of low mortgage rates and falling home prices in December as pending sales of existing homes shot up more than 6% from the previous month.
Curian Capital LLC has introduced limited exposure to alternative-class investments on its separately managed accounts platform.
Municipalities stepped up their issuance of bonds by 5.3% in January, from a year ago, according to The Bond Buyer.
The majority of hedge funds based in the United States are voluntarily registering with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to Hedge Fund Research Inc. in Chicago.
Actively managed exchange traded funds may finally start to take off as mutual fund companies look to differentiate themselves in a tough market, according to some industry experts.
Investing according to strict environmental, social and governance principles is fast gaining acceptance among U.S. investors.
With AIG shedding a number of its businesses to pay back government loans, its money management unit — which runs more than $111 billion in global assets for external retail and institutional clients — appears to be the next business to be put on the block by the distressed insurance giant.
Charles Schwab & Co. late last month began waiving fees or reimbursing expenses on its $30.5 billion U.S. Treasury Money Fund, which is used as a sweep account by many clients for their free credit balances — but you had to be something of a detective to discover the move.
If financial advisers are trying to figure out where to find decent returns in the equity markets this year, they might want to seek out Tom Forester — the only portfolio manager whose mutual fund produced a positive return last year.
Despite the fact that 2008 saw a record 46 exchange traded funds close, the total number of ETFs actually increased year-over-year to 747, from 629, according to a report released today by State Street Global Advisors of Boston.
The country is facing at least two more years of tough economic times, with no significant rebound for three-to-five years, said George Fisher, a senior adviser at New York private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
“Congress should grant the SEC explicit statutory authority to regulate hedge fund advisers as investment advisers,” Colorado securities commissioner Fred Joseph said at a press conference in Washington held by the North American Securities Administrators Association Inc.
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC has filed registration statements for two actively managed exchange traded funds focused on the non-agency prime and Alt-A residential-mortgage-backed securities markets.
Tremont Group Holdings Inc. of New York is closing its hedge fund division following $3.1 billion in losses associated with the Bernie Madoff scandal, according to the firm.
Florida hedge fund manager Arthur Nadel has come out of hiding and turned himself in yesterday to the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Tampa, Fla.
The genesis of the index is the Temporary Liquidity Guaranty Program created by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which allows bank holding companies to issue senior unsecured debt guaranteed by the U.S. government.
State Street Global Advisors today announced the launch of two new fixed-income exchange traded funds: the SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term International Treasury Bond ETF and the SPDR Barclays Capital Mortgage Backed Bond ETF.
