Hedge funds

The multi-strategy hedge-fund manager with about $7 billion in assets is seeking to raise $500 million for its first private equity fund.

Goldman Sachs Group agreed to buy Imprint Capital Advisors, an asset-management firm that advises clients on investing based on their environmental, social and governance views.

Even though ETF assets in the U.S. have surpassed those of hedge funds, there are managers returning at least triple the return of U.S. stocks and beating bonds by more than 10 times.

Robert Arnott, CEO of Research Affiliates, says the asset management industry has to change its mindset toward innovation in order to remain competitive.

The world’s biggest investment managers have won a reprieve from plans to label them as systemically important, staving off tougher regulation, as global authorities reassess the move.

Two former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. bankers are starting a hedge fund to profit from a void in bank lending.

This year, for the first time since the financial crisis, hedge funds are winning.

Asset managers groaning under the weight of regulatory requirements scrambled to learn more about recent SEC proposals that would increase their data collection and reporting requirements about their holdings.

With supply at multi-decade lows, investors are signaling alarm as regulations intended to shore up banks and prevent a run on money-market funds exacerbate the T-bill shortfall.

ETFs are growing at such a clip that their assets are poised to overtake those of hedge funds.

Maybe the Efficient Market purists have been mugged by reality. It looks like you can pick a winning money manager -- just go for one with a great long-term performance record.

While there's no magic bullet for withstanding an SEC inspection, if you are a sponsor of an alternative investment fund - or have a fund that utilizes similar investment strategies - here are some areas to consider.

Funding for startups hit a high of $17.7 billion in the quarter, from $15.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014, because hedge funds, mutual funds and private equity firms all put money on the line.

Many financial professionals are accepting the idea that they likely won't beat the market and that investors therefore would be better off in low-cost index funds.

Mom-and-pop investors may sink $350 billion into debt funds globally this year, adding to the $3 trillion they've already poured into bonds since 2008.

Financial advisors are just as critical about what they deem is a good company website and an increasing percentage will make decisions about whether to engage and choose product offerings based on a site's quality and ease of navigation.

Stock pickers have remained largely anonymous to the larger public despite a six-year rally that produced some outstanding funds. They've been overtaken by bond legends and hedge fund managers.

Carlyle Group will shut a pair of mutual funds started last year in the latest setback to private equity firms’ pursuit of individual investors.

If the Financial stability oversight Council was hoping for any kind of consensus on whether and how it should regulate asset management companies, the feedback it has received on its request for comment is likely disappointing.

Never heard of James Miles and David Green, the fund’s managers? That’s no surprise. They’re part of a group whose visibility is diminishing fast: famous stock pickers.