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A poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal’s Risk and Compliance Bureau found that Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White was the most feared regulator of 2014, just beating out Benjamin Lawsk...
Some hedge fund managers have had a hard go of it in the liquid alternatives space, the fastest-growing segment of the mutual fund world. They haven’t raised as much money as they thought they would, and many who are in multi-manager funds...
The alternative marketplace is changing. Not only are alternatives gathering renewed momentum among institutional and high-net-worth (HNW) investors, but there is also growing interest from financial advisors and their clients...
Investing successfully in art has always been a bit of a quagmire: opaque, inscrutable, unpredictable, ruled by passionate collectors and secretive insiders, a dangerous game for amateurs. And collectors and connoisseurs have long purchased art o...
The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) announced a decision this week to shed its $4 billion allocation to hedge funds, saying the funds were too complex and too costly to scale to the size the pension needed them to be...
While alternative mutual funds had record inflows and the largest number of fund launches last year, the top reason keeping advisors from investing in the asset class is fees, a Morningstar and Barron’s survey found.
Since 2009, the average equa...
