Managers of Wealth Americas

Former BlackRock Executive Shifts to P2P Investor Blue Elephant

The investment opportunity generated by new, innovative peer to peer lending platforms is becoming more and more apparent to mainstream finance.

Fifth Street Asset Management files for IPO

The filing included a nominal fundraising target of about $200 million.

Schwab to Launch First Global Real Estate Mutual Fund to Track a Fundamentally Weighted Index

CSIM is the only asset manager to offer mutual funds and exchange-traded funds

Fifth Street Asset Management files for IPO

Alternative asset manager Fifth Street Asset Management Inc filed with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering of its Class A common stock.

Man completes Numeric acquisition

Man Group has completed its acquisition of Numeric Holdings after shareholders approved the deal this morning.

Controversy Over Mutual Fund Director Pay

Mutual fund directors receive huge salaries for little work and minimal manager supervision

Hedge Fund Blames High-Frequency Trading for Shutdown

Many hedge-fund managers, particularly those that bet on global economic trends, have criticized stock prices

Alternative Investment Management Wins Prestigious Award

This award is a direct result of the hard work of our team

Paulson Starts Climate-Change Program to Fund Research

Cleaning up China’s air also will benefit Americans because airborne pollutants ride the jet stream to the U.S.

InstarAGF Expands Alternatives Investment Platform

The Fund was oversubscribed with equity commitments of approximately $210 million.

AMP Capital invests in portfolio of renewable assets across Canada and the United States

AMP Capital's Infrastructure Debt Fund II has arranged and structured a C$110 million subordinated loan for Alterra Power Corporation, a leading global renewable energy company headquartered in British Columbia.

Manulife to buy Standard Life's Canadian assets for US$3.7b

The Toronto-based insurer, already Canada's largest, said the transaction will boost earnings after the first year and more than double its presence in the largely French-speaking Canadian province, where it has long been under-represented.

Andrew Madoff, Convicted Conman’s Last Surviving Son, Dies at 48

He died yesterday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York after battling mantle cell lymphoma, his attorney, Martin Flumenbaum, said in an e-mailed statement.

The State Department Welcomes the Royal Bank of Canada to the Global Equality Fund

Since its launch, the Fund has provided over $12 million in over 50 countries worldwide

US Expansion And Merger Of JLT Specialty And LPL

Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc to drive a new phase of growth through the significant expansion of its US specialty capabilities and merger of JLT Specialty and Lloyd & Partners

Gar Wood Securities and Axxcess to introduce emerging hedge fund managers to investors

The initiative allows Gar Wood Securities and Axxcess Wealth Management the ability to deliver wealth management solutions

GAM launches US mortgage-backed securities fund

The fund will invest in mortgage backed securities (MBS) assets

AllianceBernstein Continues Liquid Alts Push With New Fund

The AllianceBernstein Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund is designed to generate long-term capital appreciation

US fund managers lose out to European rivals

European fund managers reclaimed territory from their US rivals in the first half of the year, taking three of the top five spots in the league table for net sales in Europe, according to Lipper data.

Alkhabeer Capital and USAA Real Estate Co. make acquisition of US real estate assets

Alkhabeer Capital together with its investment partner, USAA Real Estate Company have announced the acquisition of Lake Pointe Center III and IV

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