Daniel Loeb’s Third Point sold its entire $1 billion stake in online retailer Alibaba in the first three months of this year, according to a filing.
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When hiring people who call themselves strategists, be aware that some act more like tacticians instead.
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The move, including the departure of its chief investment officer of global equities, is the latest setback in the effort to expand in stock-fund investing.
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The private-equity firm Blackstone Group bought a minority stake in Magnetar Capital, a hedge-fund firm that came under regulatory scrutiny for its role creating mortgage securities that soured during the financial crisis.
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A Russian businessman accused in Manhattan federal court of laundering some of the proceeds of an alleged $230 million fraud questions the case’s credibility in court filing.
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When hiring people who call themselves strategists, be aware that some act more like tacticians instead.
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Funds that hold shorter-term municipal bonds should suffer less when interest rates climb.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged Nationwide Life Insurance Co. with violating pricing rules relating to variable insurance contracts and underlying mutual funds.
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A debate is intensifying over whether some advisers are misusing the measure as a way to select fund managers and predict the performance of actively managed mutual funds.
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Pimco’s flagship Total Return fund ceded its title as largest bond mutual fund to rival Vanguard Group, according to April data.
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“We always stress that increasing international equity allocation doesn't by any stretch mean getting out of the domestic market.”
The growth of the “gig economy” has created more couples where one partner freelances and the other has a full-time job. Finances get tricky.
Financier and philanthropist George Soros more than tripled his positions in EBay (EBAY), cut his stake in Facebook (FB) while buying the VXX, according to quarterly 13-F filings released Friday. Friday marks the deadline for big money managers to reveal holdings as of March 31 in regulatory filings. Soros Fund Management. As of March 31, [...]
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