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Morningstar said its hedge fund database saw outflows of $1.5 billion, the second consecutive month of outflows.

Diversification is the best way to hedge against volatility, but now there are more ways to invest in volatility itself.

Aite Group's report concludes that whatever burden comes of Dodd-Frank and the EU Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers for hedge funds and their managers will be at least as expensive and time-consuming for the regulators looking to enforce more stringent reporting standards outlined in the law.

ProShares fund to provide investors inverse exposure.

Equity funds net $582 million.

The portfolios are broadly diversified and aim to reduce risk.

While corporations, consumers and governments are trying to get back on their feet following the global recession, continued volatility is pushing investors, especially high-net-worth investors, to pour their money into alternatives, which allow for broader diversification, said Gurinder Ahluwalia, president of Genworth Financial Wealth Management, at a media roundtable on diversification and new asset classes in New York City on Tuesday.

The new offering will integrate absolute return funds that seek positive returns over a three-year period with less volatility than traditional asset classes.

Alternative investment funds which need to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the first time will find it a costly process, according to research firm Aite Group.

The social network is designed for investors of all aptitudes.

A 1.7% drop in the Nikkei is not devastation. Many advisors are already suggesting that by Monday morning, the financial markets will have priced it in as a minor bump in a global bull market.

Tax-exempt money market funds saw modest inflows of $639.9 million in the week ended March 7, increasing total net assets to $323.67 billion, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

According to PIMCO, consultants said that active management makes the most sense for all asset classes, except large-cap U.S. equities.

Concerns about rising oil prices and an end to the stock market rally once quantitative easing ends has caused 40% of hedge fund managers to be bearish on U.S. equities, up from 26% in January, according to the TrimTabs/BarclayHedge Survey of Hedge Fund Managers. And only 26% are bullish, down from 37%.

Most of Canada's largest financial services firms have and will continue to invest heavily in IT projects for the foreseeable future to garner more customers and stay ahead of the compliance and regulation curve.

Even if you outsource stock picking, or buy only mutual funds, somebody somewhere has to select stocks.

The dispersion of performance between best and worst performers narrows.

But only 10% think blue-chip stocks will be the best performers this year.

Equity funds see inflows of $2.53 billion, down from $6.42 billion the week before.

Mahoney, who has worked for the San Mateo, Calif., based investment manager since 1993, is “now responsible for overseeing and mentoring the firm’s internal sales staff, and will also seek ways to enhance sales techniques to make them more salient in the digital age.”