Section 1: Investment Management

Section 1: Investment Management

Copyright Win McNamee, Getty Images 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 L...

How the JOBS Act is helping issuers and investors improve capital flow via alternative investments

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...