Alternative investments

Alternative asset managers are under pressure to broaden their offerings as institutional investors seek to make big allocations to fewer firms.

Professionals from family offices, investment managers, estate planners, art advisors and other disciplines describe mistakes they’ve seen.

The technology could make collecting more appealing to investors.

The funds include a wide range of offerings from emerging markets to precious metals, multi-strategy and REITs.

A record 186 funds were shuttered last year. What does this mean for the future of the industry?

B. Riley is grabbing a majority stake in National Holdings while pledging to be a passive investor in the overhauled firm.

The SEC may have had good intentions, but the guidelines have distorted markets and reinforced the allure of companies that forego the IPO.

The firm is set to formally begin raising a new fund dedicated to this practice imminently, according to people familiar with the matter.

For younger investors, the current experience of "finding and investing in a mutual fund feels very broken," says co-founder of the investing app startup.

Some unresolved issues haven’t received as much attention as those related to federal securities laws.

But the benefits are not evenly distributed among taxpayers.

Regulators in Massachusetts launched a “sweep” of more than 60 firms that sold nearly $1.3 billion in limited partnerships sponsored by GPB Capital.

The actively managed offering aims to invest in corporate and non-corporate obligations, excluding government-guaranteed issues.

UBS wades into relative-value strategies with short-term structured notes

To get back into investors’ good graces, funds have had to alter traits like their liquidity, fees and even their overall structure.

The pool of money will primarily buy investments from so-called side pockets of illiquid stocks created before 2008.

Expected to raise $1 billion, the listing could encourage new offerings from many of the country’s cash-starved property firms.

Inflows have persisted since the infamous “volpocalypse” in early February.

Bryan Mullin, CFA, Head, Alternative Investments, RBC Wealth Management, James Waldinger, CEO, Artivest