Tag: Alternative investments

 Russell Investments has launched what it says is the first U.S. multi-manager mutual fund with a specific commodities mandate.

Retirement plan advisers looking to keep up with the latest developments in alternative investment funds have a new resource. 

Just 30 days after its last distribution to holders of its frozen real estate fund, the Principal has made another payment.

Russell Investments has added personnel in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific in alternative investments.

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going,” or so goes the old saying.  

Fusion Business Group, a provider of technology consulting and business level advisory services to alternative investment advisers, will now provide clients of Automated Compliance Solutions (ACS) with infrastructure,...

Commissions paid by institutional investors to brokers on trades of U.S. equities are falling far short of projections to this point in 2010, according to Greenwich Associates.

Invesco’s Global Asset Allocation team has now launched, and recently been awarded its first mandate in, its Balanced-Risk Commodity strategy.

Navellier & Associates announced it launched Navellier Select, L.P., an alternative investment fund-of-funds, in January 2010.

Collective trust funds (CTFs) are experiencing a renewed interest over the last few years in the defined contribution landscape, according to the latest retirement-focused research from Cerulli Associates.

Russell Investments is expanding its manager research and consulting advisory services globally in an effort to deepen capabilities in less traditional strategies such as active commodities, private investments,...

Nautical Capital Management LLC has launched its commodity-based absolute return strategies.

Arete Consulting, the owner of structured products information provider StructuredRetailProducts.com, said it now offers a specialist structured products site for registered investment advisers (RIAs).

The majority of financial advisers are looking to alternative investments as a way to diversify their portfolios, believing that traditional stocks, bonds and cash do not provide adequate...

Sustainable Asset Management (SAM), a global provider of sustainability investing and the co-developer of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, has hired Neil Johnson to lead its North American...

Security Global Investors (SGI) has named Jerome Abernathy and David Beeman to its quantitative investment and development/management teams to help shape the firm's efforts in alternative products.

CUSO Financial Services (CFS), a full-service, broker/dealer and registered investment adviser, has launched the ActivePassive Portfolios on the CUSO Asset Management (CAM) platform.

Investment management company Bandon Capital Management, LLC, announced a new relationship with American Independent Securities Group, LLC (AISG), enabling AISG advisers to access Bandon’s flagship investment strategy.

INTECH Investment Management LLC has launched its first Enhanced Global Equity strategy. 

California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced a $1.4-billion settlement with three Wells Fargo affiliates to pay back investors, charities, and small businesses that purchased auction-rate securities...