The subprime-mortgage crisis, pushed along by the high-profile collapse of two Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. hedge funds this summer, is turning out to be a boon for money managers looking to pick up bargains.
Recent market volatility has been good for ProShare Advisors LLC. The gyrations have drawn attention to its 52 exchange traded funds, all of which use leverage to provide short or magnified exposure to various indexes.
It’s only nine in the morning on this late-July day, but Tom Ensign’s white dress shirt is already blotted with dark circles of perspiration. Mr. Ensign, president and chief executive of Provest Management Group, is standing on a football field under a blazing-hot sun, which still is rising in a cloudless blue sky. The pungent smell of earth and grass hangs languidly in the hot, thick air.
Another threat to hedge fund managers: A new proposal may keep them from deferring taxes on compensation, The Wall Street Journal reports.
A steep fall in bonds has led to speculation that China may be pulling its funds from the U.S., The Telegraph said.
Hedge funds overall experienced outflows of $32 billion in July, according to data from the TrimTabs/Barclay Hedge Fund Report.
A group of investors in Bear Stearns’ two deflated hedge funds want to replace the funds’ general partner and director.
Van Eck Global launched the Market Vectors-Agribusiness ETF on the American Stock Exchange today.
ETF Insider's ETF 50 Index increased by 0.6% in August, following two consecutive months of declines.
New York City houses the bulk of the investment banking industry, but it holds second place when it comes to weekly pay.
PHILADELPHIA — Despite concerns from financial advisers, more mainstream mutual fund companies are spicing up their fund lineups with products that employ strategies long used by hedge funds.
CHICAGO — The seemingly endless quest for cost-effective alternative investments has increased the interest in collective trusts among employee benefit plan sponsors and financial advisers, though concern about transparency remains a hurdle.
A judge denied bankruptcy protection for its two failed hedge funds and refused to protect the firm from U.S. lawsuits.
Cheyne Capital Management is asking SIV investors to refinance to put off an enforced asset sale, published reports said.
The First Trust Dow Jones STOXX Select Dividend 30 Index was launched as an exchange traded fund.
Investment companies will now be able to invest in the company’s ETFs beyond the limits of Section 12(d)-1.
Hedge funds have become the big fish in the debt-trading pool, according to a report by Greenwich Associates.
Cheyne Capital Management, a London-based independent hedge fund manager, may be forced to liquidate some assets to repay its creditors.
London & Capital Investment Advisors Inc. of Miami, the U.S.-based unit of London & Capital PLC, today announced its plan to launch a range of alternative absolute return investment strategies.
Shaky market conditions in August bit off 8% of Tudor Investment Corp.’s Raptor Global Fund, according to Reuters.
