Alternative investments

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, in partnership with CAIA, will now require its employees in its retail distribution arm to enroll in CAIA's fundamentals of alternative investment certification program.

After making recent waves with retail acquisitions, Nicholas Schorsch's RCS Capital Holdings is adding its first wholesaling broker-dealer to a growing portfolio.

Alternative investments are reaching a much broader swath of investors. As a result, financial advisors are increasingly bombarded with questions from curious clients. Early adopters are in a position to answer these queries, but for the uninitiated advisor -- it's time to get up to speed.

From news of ETFs and ETPs rebounding in March to BlackRock shaking up leadership, here's top news impacting mutual fund and ETF managers and providers.

Investors are piling into emerging- market exchange-traded funds at the fastest pace in seven months as they dump technology companies in favor of cheaper stocks.

With gold performance often hit or miss, fund managers who focus on this commodity face challenges marketing through the ups and downs.

From investors scrambling out of ETFs to regulations prompting managers to change distribution strategies, here's top news impacting mutual fund and ETF managers and providers.

Interest in alternatives is rising among investors as they look to manage volatility in their portfolios - and advisor education is critical to meeting that tidal wave of demand.

Of the 296 funds that picked up Lipper U.S. Fund Awards this year, only nine were peer-group winners for all of the eligible time periods. See the list here.

Of the 296 funds that picked up Lipper U.S. Fund Awards this year, only nine were peer-group winners for all of the eligible time periods. See the list here.

As it turns out, larger and smaller RIA firms face similar compliance challenges.

Using recent research from the North American Securities Administrators Association, Harold Reimer -- head of private wealth management for Temenos in North America -- put together a list of advisory compliance best practices.

From positive outlooks for ETFs to asset managers in Asia gaining a greater portion of pay from net sales, here's top news impacting mutual fund and ETF managers and providers.

New funds provide hedging tools to limit or amplify clients' currency exposure on their foreign investments.

From FINRA fining two firms to U.S. listed ETFs seeing inflows of $27.94 billion, here's top news impacting mutual fund and ETF managers and providers.

FINRA found that LPL didn’t have a reasonable system in place to determine whether purchases of alternatives would cause a customer’s account to be unsuitably concentrated.

Variable annuity net new sales are expected to surge in the coming years after taking a dive in 2012, according to research firm Cerulli Associates.

IMCA and CAIA are teaming up to fill in a knowledge gap about alternative investments, offering a new online education program that teaches the basics to the uninitiated.

RCS Capital is following through on its promise to launch a research division with the hiring of two non-traded investments analysts.

Vanguard Group, the third- largest U.S. provider of exchange-traded funds, has asked regulators for permission to open actively-managed ETFs.