Alternative investments

Investors poured a record $191 billion into U.S.-registered exchange-traded products last year, topping the previous peak of $187.2 billion set in 2012.

During a year in which Japan stocks were the top performers in the benchmark MSCI AllCountry World Index ex-U.S., the fund was light on that country as its managers took a wait-and-see approach to the Bank of Japan's aggressive (and, in the end, highly successful) asset-buying program.

The priority for mutual fund and ETF managers in 2014 will be operations and technology.

Legal & General Group Plc, the largest manager of U.K. pension assets, agreed to sell an office building in London’s Midtown district to Orchard Street Investment Management LLP for 85.1 million pounds ($140 million).

Alternative investment funds underperform equity and bond funds and don't always provide the low correlation investors seek. Why bother with them at all?

Scandals surrounding the setting of some of the world’s most important financial benchmarks, which influence the prices people pay for everything from oil to mortgages, have shaken confidence in vital markets.

U.S. stocks were little changed, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index reached an all-time high last week and headed toward its biggest annual gain since 1997.

U.S. stocks were little changed, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index reached an all-time high last week and headed toward its biggest annual gain since 1997.

Five years after the equity bull market started, U.S. investors returned to stocks in 2013, just in time for the best relative returns versus bonds on record.

Scandals surrounding the setting of some of the world’s most important financial benchmarks, which influence the prices people pay for everything from oil to mortgages, have shaken confidence in vital markets.

Hedge funds got less bullish on gold for the seventh time in eight weeks as the U.S. economy strengthens and inflation fails to accelerate, driving prices to the biggest annual drop in more than three decades.

The number of mergers and acquisitions of financial advisors is set to increase substantially in 2014 and beyond, according to research released by Tiburon Strategic Advisors.

Crocs Inc. Chief Executive Officer John McCarvel will retire and Blackstone Group LP will invest $200 million in convertible preferred stock as the maker of colorful plastic clogs struggles to regain lost popularity.

U.S. stock-index futures were little changed, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index advanced for a second week, heading toward its biggest annual gain since 1997.

Emerging-market stocks advanced, led by the biggest rally in Turkey’s benchmark index in more than three months, amid speculation political tension in the country may ease.

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