Alternative investments

RegentAtlantic has built up a $2.4 billion firm by rounding up a baker's dozen of niche-focused wealth advisors.

How one firm is preparing for a few of the megatrends heading our way.

First Trust Advisors has launched another actively managed ETF.

Managed futures mutual funds? They are so 2012.

Hedge fund assets worldwide may increase 11% to $2.5 trillion by year-end, according to the survey by the Germany’s largest bank.

Guggenheim Investments is liquidating nine exchange-traded funds to make room for other "products that have demonstrated the most marketplace demand."

Bill Gross’ bank account may be $2 million lighter but it’s going to a good cause.

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.