Alternative investments

There's nothing quite like the feeling of coming out from under a guardian's wing.

Bruce Karpati, chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division's asset management unit, has a few choice words for hedge funds looking to get into the mutual fund space.

Leawood, KS-based Cognios Capital is breaking into the mutual fund space via an alternative offering.

Bruce Karpati, chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division's asset management unit, has a few choice words for hedge funds looking to get into the mutual fund space.

On Wall Street profiles the most influential personalities in the advisory industry this year.

Steve Houston, Barclays managing director of wealth and investment management for the Americas discusses his 23 years in the securities business.

Online community nets its 1,000th member.

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Dale Yahnke has built up $2.1 billion in AUM by focusing on low costs and specific solutions.

The Investment Company Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today filed a notice of appeal of a recent ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upholding the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s rule requiring mutual funds with commodities investments to register with the agency.

Remember the hype surrounding 130/30 funds a few years back? Well, some have gone the way of the dinosaur and some just simply changed their name a la the MainStay 130/30 Core Fund.

The TCW Group has added a pair of alternative investment shops and a new head of alternative products to its Christmas stocking this year.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is currently prepping an alternative mutual multi-manager fund to launch in 2013.

Hedge funds are packing up and heading south. Is this a continuing trend or a brief part of the financial sector's ongoing evolution?

Two Roads Shared Trust last week revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing what it alluded to in a press release earlier this month.

While the bloom is still on the alternative mutual fund rose, 2012 hasn't been as kind to alternatives as in years past.

While the bloom is still on the alternative mutual fund rose, 2012 hasn't been as kind to alternatives as in years past.

Gemini Fund Services and Arrow Investment Advisors today unveiled their exchange-traded fund initiative, the Northern Lights ETF Trust (NLET), which will bring “innovative” ETFs to market.

Wells Fargo & Co., the biggest U.S. bank by market value, bought a stake in Rock Creek Group LP to provide more hedge-fund offerings to clients amid a push to double the asset-management unit within seven years.

Arden Asset Management has expanded its offerings of customized hedge fund solutions.