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ALTERNATIVES AUG 28, 2007
Hedge inflows $41 billion in second quarter

The second-quarter inflows pushed industry assets to an estimated $1.67 trillion.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 27, 2007
Housing sales continue to slip

Purchases of existing homes in the Unites States slipped 0.2% in July, the fifth consecutive monthly decline, according to the National Association of Realtors.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 27, 2007
Hedge funds losing their luster

Major losses at prominent hedge funds are causing pension fund managers to second guess hedge fund investments.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 27, 2007
S.A.C. Capital’s portfolio drops in value

S.A.C. Capital Advisors, the world's most expensive hedge fund manager, joined the majority of hedge funds that lost money in the first two weeks of August, posting a 6% drop in its multi-strategy fund, according to an investor.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 27, 2007
Judge rules in Bear Stearns’ favor

A federal judge refused to allow investors to seize the assets of two hedge funds of Bear Stearns' for 10 days, but indicated he is considering lifting the funds' U.S. bankruptcy protections.

MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 27, 2007
Target date benchmarks miss the mark

Despite a surge in popularity among investors, target date mutual funds continue to operate without adequate benchmarks to help financial advisers evaluate whether their performance is up to snuff.

MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 27, 2007
Retail investors lag in global investing

Institutional investors have put more money into global strategies since the start of the year, but retail investors and their financial advisers so far seem to be behind the curve.

ETFS AUG 27, 2007
ALPS Fund Services climbs another mountain

PHILADELPHIA — After years of looking after the back-office needs of its mutual fund and exchange traded fund clients, ALPS Fund Services Inc. is itself getting into the advisory business.

MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 27, 2007
Choppy market seen hurting closed-end funds

IRVINE, Calif. — Market turmoil could create some pretty unhappy closed-end-fund investors and put a damper on the closed-end-fund-underwriting business. At the same time, professional closed-end-fund investors said that they are still buying their favorite issues, which now trade near historically large discounts to net asset value.

FIXED INCOME AUG 24, 2007
Gross: Crisis needs ‘Rooseveltian’ response

Bond fund manager Bill Gross said the subprime-mortgage crisis merits a swift federal response.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 24, 2007
Blackstone bewails proposed tax boost

Blackstone Group claims its yearly tax tab would increase by $525 million under legislation proposed in the Senate.

FIXED INCOME AUG 24, 2007
Pimco's Gross is buying bank bonds

The founder and managing director of Pacific Investment Management Co. is buying debt of investment banks.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 23, 2007
Troubled Goldman fund on upswing

Goldman Sachs's Global Equity Opportunities hedge fund gained 12% last week after the firm injected it with $3 billion in cash.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 23, 2007
London hedge fund gets summer trim

GLG's European Long-Short, with more than $2 billion in assets, lost 4.4% in value during the first 10 days Of August.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 22, 2007
'Carried interest' no cash cow, says study

Raising taxes on private equity managers probably won’t generate a whole lot of money, according to a new study.

ETFS AUG 22, 2007
Claymore ETFs bow on NYSE

Claymore has launched three ETFs based on Morningstar Super Sector Indexes on the New York Stock Exchange.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 21, 2007
FBR takes $57M loss on securities sale

FBR took a $57 million loss after selling $4.95 billion in agency mortgage-backed securities.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 21, 2007
Hedge fund thief nabbed in Greece

Angelo Haligiannis was arrested in Greece and then freed pending an extradition hearing next week.

MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 20, 2007
SEC debuts e-filing for mutual funds

The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun its voluntary electronic filing program for mutual funds.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 20, 2007
Hedge funds stay afloat in June

Equity markets pulled back during June, but hedge funds still posted positive returns, according to the Lipper Hedge Funds Insight report.