Alternative investments

Part of the steady uptick in investment in emerging market fixed income is due to the appearance of new players from the emerging markets themselves.

There are a host of reasons why emerging market debt has been looking sweeter to investors.

Mainstay Investments has augmented its alternatives offerings with two hedge fund-of-funds.

With over 25,000 open-ended mutual funds available for sale in the United States, it is more difficult than ever to stand out from the crowd.

New research by the Center for Applied Research, a think tank affiliate of State Street Corporation, is bound to leave a few advisors scratching their heads.

Whitebox Advisors today unveiled its second alternative mutual fund to the retail market.

One commodity fund has received the dreaded Negative rating from Morningstar.

Liberty Street Advisors has launched the Capital Innovations Global Agri, Timber and Infrastructure Fund (INNAX, INNCX, INNNX), to bet on global stocks in agribusiness, timber and infrastructure.

Credit Suisse Group AG and Qatar Holding LLC, a unit of the Persian Gulf emirate’s sovereign- wealth fund, agreed to form asset manager Aventicum Capital Management to boost investments in emerging markets.

AQR Capital Management has added two mutual funds, AQR Risk Parity II MV Fund (Class I/QRMIX) and AQR Risk Parity II HV Fund (Class I/QRHIX), to be distributed through advisors only.

Hedge funds cut bullish wagers on commodities by the most since June as prices retreated to a three-month low on mounting concern that Europe’s debt crisis will worsen and U.S. growth slow.

ProShares is readying a merger arbitrage exchange-traded fund to launch sometime in January, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

As America grows older, advisors shift practices from accumulating wealth to generating income.

Investors have been flocking to alternative mutual funds and ETFs - and are being punished for it.

Living abroad seems like an inexpensive option for some prospective retirees, but there are many issues to consider.

With liquidity still in short supply in equities and exchange-traded funds after the reopening of markets Wednesday, NASDAQ cancelled all trades in the first two minutes of activity in the Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF (VOOG).

Altegris Advisors has added the Brevan Howard Emerging Markets Local Fixed Income strategy to the Altegris Macro Strategy Fund (MCRAX, MCRNX, MCRCX, MCRIX).

Goldman Sachs is calling it quits in Brazil, Korea and India.

Since Hatteras Funds acquired the Alpha Hedged Strategies Fund in 2009 from AIP Mutual Funds, the fund family has grown to $700 million in assets under management.

Value Line Funds has combined the Value Line U.S. Government Money Market Fund (VLCXX) into the Reich & Tang Daily Income Fund - U.S . Government Portfolio, effective October 19.