The number of hedge fund launches and liquidations are off at a 25% annual rate for the second consecutive year, according to HFR.
The first U.S.-listed Chinese Real Estate ETF gives investors exposure to the Chinese real restate market.
CEO and CIO were the best-compensated positions at hedge funds of funds in 2007, according to an Infovest21 survey.
Due to negative returns, investors are pulling money out of mutual funds that invest in real estate investment trusts, but financial advisers believe that now is not the time to trim holdings.
Tudor Investment clients have pulled more than $1 billion from its Raptor hedge fund after it fell 8.5% this year.
While mutual funds continue to garner the lion's share of investment assets, their growth is trailing that of exchange traded assets and separately managed accounts.
Brokers and other industry observers are steaming over a new study that shows that investors who buy load funds do far worse than the funds themselves.
The hedge fund run by RK Capital Management of London lost 22% in November as copper prices fell.
Greenwich reported significantly smaller losses than the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq indexes.
Investors eyeing socially conscious funds are no longer looking merely at the social issues; they are also looking for performance — a change that has resulted in new offerings from fund firms in asset classes that have been underrepresented in this market for nearly a decade.
The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index fell by 1.58% in November, but remains up 11.94% year-to-date.
Shares of MBIA surged today after the bond insurer said that a private equity firm would inject up to $1 billion of fresh capital into the struggling company.
Despite the drop in assets, 26 new ETFs were added to the market last month, brining the total number to 612.
Despite once having been seen as betraying financial advisers, The Vanguard Group Inc. of Malvern, Pa., continues to ratchet up efforts to court them.
Despite the market's current volatility, the love affair between ultrawealthy investors and hedge funds is still torrid, according to a new survey by the Institute for Private Investors, a New York-based association for very wealthy families and their advisers.
As 2008 rolls around, it will bring an important historical marker: The five-year anniversary of the bull market.
Hedge fund assets have increased by 11% in the past six months, according to HFM.
Hedge fund returns fell November, reflecting declines in the major stock markets, the credit crunch and concerns about business slowdowns.
Load funds significantly underperform a buy-and-hold strategy with the same funds, says the Zero Alpha Group.
The regulator is investigating whether financial entities are investing in hedge funds in order to share inside information.
