Alternative investments

Forward Management welcomes a macro strategist and portfolio manager to its investment team.

After less than a year of striking out on its own, Pyxis Capital is right back to where it started.

Robert Doll has been named portfolio manager of Nuveen Santa Barbara Long/Short Equity Fund, according to a regulatory filing.

Blue Bell, PA-based wealth management shop Persimmon Capital Management has launched its first mutual fund, Persimmon Long/Short Fund (LSEAX), a multi-advisor mutual fund that employs long/short equity strategies. The fund started trading with $25 million of assets under management.

Schooner Investment Group, the investment adviser to the Schooner Global Absolute Return Fund, is liquidating the alternative mutual fund on March 13, according to a regulatory filing.

Fidelity Financial Advisor Solutions, the Defined Contribution Investment Only unit of Fidelity Investments, is looking to grow its team of wholesalers.

Excelsior, MN-based LoCorr Fund Management is looking to add another alternative mutual fund to its lineup.

American Century has hired an army veteran as its newest vice president.

Equinox Financial Group is following up on its recent acquisition of Tapestry Asset Management, a hedge fund shop, by launching a long/short fund with Princeton, NJ-based Tapestry as the subadvisor.

Chris Munafo, senior vice president and director of private client group administration at Janney Montgomery Scott discusses his 27 years in the securities business.

Raoul Rodriguez Walters' planning practice specializes in the intricacies of financial migration.

Named for a Gospel passage, the Matthew 25 fund has been churning out superior performance for a decade and a half.

Classic investment style boxes are out and themes are in, Burt White, LPL Financial’s managing director of research, told advisors.

Hatteras Funds earlier this month announced that its Hatteras Managed Futures Strategies Fund (HMFIX, HMFAX) is now available on the Charles Schwab Mutual Fund OneSource Platform.

Pioneer Investments is reshuffling its fund lineup including reorganizing four domestic equity funds and liquidating another.

Who better to help kickoff an educational alternatives summit series than Jeffrey Gundlach?

For alternative mutual funds, 2012 was a mixed bag.

Houston-based Salient Partners earlier this month added the Pure Trend Fund, a managed futures offering, to its growing list of alternative mutual funds.

For alternative mutual funds, 2012 was a mixed bag.

BlackRock is expanding its suite of alternative funds by launching the BlackRock Global Long/Short Equity Fund (BDMAX, BDMIX), which will bet on equity markets across the US and international developed markets.