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Long-short funds really delivering?

September 4, 2008 — 1:36pm ET | By Jim Kim
The conventional wisdom at the moment is that long-short funds are in heavy demand. According to Morningstar, about 90 money management firms offer more than 200 products applying a 130/30 or... Read more...

Get ready for actively managed ETFs

December 17, 2007 — 7:59am ET
It sounds like a oxymoron. An actively managed exchange-traded fund? Wasn't the point of an ETF to five customers low-cost access to passive products? PowerShares, the Invesco unit, apparently senses... Read more...

Crashing the private equity club?

December 10, 2007 — 7:59am ET
It was only a matter of time before some one came up with an idea to let the little investor in on private equity investing. Which strikes me as a marketing concept more than anything. One example is... Read more...

And the biggest mutual fund company is...

August 2, 2007 — 6:59am ET
Vanguard has pulled off quite a coup: it has wrestled the title 'biggest selling mutual fund company' away from... Read more...

Nasdaq to launch new ETF market

July 4, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

The Nasdaq of course latched onto the... Read more...

New style of ETF draws some fire

July 2, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Robert Arnott, chairman of Research Affiliates, is bent on popularizing what he sees as a better way to index stocks and thus create better Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: AMEX Glitch

July 1, 2007 — 8:01pm ET
For the third time in just two weeks a technology glitch has brought the American Stock Exchange to a halt. The latest spared options, but not stocks and ETFs. The problems seem to be some IT legacy... Read more...

Who will buy Rydex?

June 14, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

The rumor mill holds that a deal for bull-bear fund pioneer Rydex will be announced in the not-too-distant future. MarketWatch says a deal in the $1 billion range could be in the works.... Read more...

Hedge funds forced to short ETFs

June 4, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

There's a whole lot of hedge funds out there trying to short stocks. Add to that a growing number of mutual funds and even individuals as well as a rising market, and you've got a really tough... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: HSBC hit by mounting credit losses; More on Barclays/RBS tactics for ABN Amro; and much more...

May 15, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Company News:
> More on Barclays/RBS tactics for ABN Amro. Article
> SunTrust to buy back shares. Read more...

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