Alternative investments

Market Vectors launched on Apirl 11, 2011 a new ETF focusing on U.S. Fallen Angel debt

Sal Gilbertie, former head of the OTC Energy and Renewables Desk at Newedge USA, is the co-founder of Santa Fe, N.M.-based Teucrium, exchange-traded fund shop that specializes in futures trading of agricultural commodities.

A group of alternative mutual funds is kicking off its second annual advisor road show today in hopes of educating advisors on the benefits of alternative investing and, ultimately, winning business.

Financial advisors are increasingly turning towards alternative investments and tactical asset allocations in response to market turbulence, according to a survey released by Curian Capital.

Here is what investors get told, before investing in one set of exchange-traded notes:

Socially responsible investing has increasingly become hot over the past five years.

The Exchange Traded Products (ETP) industry recorded its best ever start to a year, attracting net new assets of $67.3billion in the first quarter of 2012, a 57% increase over the $42.8billion gained in the first quarter of 2011, according to the Q1 2012 ETP Landscape Report released by BlackRock. The first quarter 2011 figure had previously been the best annual start on record.

Exchange-traded funds are off to a strong start, with record first-quarter inflows reaching $55.9 billion.

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.