Alternative investments

INTECH Investment Management LLC (INTECH), an independently managed subsidiary of Janus Capital Group Inc., launched two global dividend strategies: one focused on seeking capital appreciation and higher-than-average dividend yields and the other focused on absolute risk.

It looks like iShares isn’t going to be scared off that easily by the BATS Exchanges’s glitch last month.

Market Vectors ETF Trust has launched the International High Yield Bond ETF, which bet on the corporate high-yield bond market.

BlackRock Investments Canada Inc. has appointed Mary Anne Wiley managing director and head of its combined exchange-traded fund business, replacing Som Seif, founder and chief executive of the recently-acquired Claymore Investments, Inc.

The moment was remarkable, if not dramatic.

RiverPark Advisors LLC, a New York-based investment advisory company, has launched the RiverPark Long/Short Opportunity Fund, an open-end mutual fund that was converted from an existing hedge fund launched in October 2009.

Aristotle Capital Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor focused primarily on managing separate accounts for institutions and high net-worth investors, has launched its first mutual fund—employing many of the go-anywhere strategies it employs for these high-net clients.

Investment advisor Matthew Tuttle spends a lot of time moving the money of newly-acquired clients out of mutual funds and into exchanged-traded instruments.

BlackRock Investments Canada Inc., an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. today said that it will liquidate the Claymore Inverse 10 Yr Government Bond ETF and distribute to shareholders the proceeds from the liquidation of the assets by June 22.

The moment was remarkable, if not dramatic.

Los Angeles, Calif.-based Oaktree Capital Group, LLC has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO priced at $595 million with Class A units valued between $43 and $46 per share.

ProShares has launched the ProShares UltraPro Short 20+ Year Treasury. The ETF lists on NYSE Arca today.

BlackRock’s Canadian investment arm, BlackRock Investments Canada, Inc., is now rebranding to iShares the names of most of the exchange-traded and closed end funds previously marketed under the Claymore Investments brand.

In order to improve investor access to the fund, PIMCO will change the NYSE ticker for its Total Return ETF from TRXT to BOND on April 4, 2012.

Santa Fe, N.M.-based Teucrium Trading, LLC today unveiled the Teucrium Agricultural Fund, which is being touted as the first fund to offer exposure to agricultural commodities in a single fund of exchange-traded funds.

iShares has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a frontier market exchange-traded fund.

J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services today said that it has been appointed by Yorkville ETF Advisors, LLC to provide custody and exchange traded fund transfer agency services to its newly launched Yorkville High Income master limited partnerships ETF.

Portland, Ore.-based Invest n Retire, LLC, a record keeper for tax-deferred retirement plans, has appointed Agustin J. (Gus) Fleites as chief executive officer.

Horizon Investments has launched a no-load actively-managed mutual fund that invests in exchange-traded funds.

Exchange-traded funds are all the craze and new ones are coming out of the woodwork daily. But do investors really know what they’re buying in a hedge replication strategy or an Eastern European index fund?