Managers of Wealth Americas

Ramius and State Street Global Advisors Plan Managed Futures Fund Relationship

Fund to be Renamed State Street/Ramius Managed Futures Strategy FundRamius Files Proxy Statement Seeking Shareholder Approval for Sub-Advisory Agreement

MetLife Joins Norway Fund in $561 Million Boston Deal

The collaboration on U.S. property bets began in December, as the Norwegian fund sought to diversify its holdings.

MB Financial Receives OCC Approval for Pending Merger

The transaction, which remains subject to the satisfaction of other customary conditions to closing, is expected to be completed on or about August 18, 2014.

Natixis Global Asset Management Launches Seeyond Multi-Asset Allocation Fund

The fund’s management team specializes in active volatility investing in Europe

RBC Global Asset Management Announces Changes to Four International and Global Equity Funds

AM-UK specializes in global, European and emerging market equities, as well as global and emerging markets fixed income.

Mitsubishi Corporation Enters into Strategic Partnership Agreement with I Squared Capital

Mitsubishi Corporation has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with I Squared Capital Advisors LLC, an independent infrastructure investment fund manager.

UBS’s Puerto Rico Closed End Funds Have a Troubled Past

Investors over the last several months have been filing legal action against UBS Financial Services Inc. of Puerto Rico over closed-end municipal bond funds that have tanked in value.

Hedge Fund Avoided More Than $6 Billion Tax, Report Says

The hedge fund used contracts with the banks to establish the “fiction” that it wasn’t the owner of thousands of stocks traded each day, said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat and chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga

US investment firm partners with Breakwater Advisory

US-based investment firm Voya Investment Management (IM) has partnered with third-party marketing and advisory firm Breakwater Advisory to offer asset management services to Australian institutional investors.

First Trust’s smart beta attracts the money

The Big Three exchange-traded fund providers – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Global Advisors – have dominated the ETF market for years by consistently attracting the lion’s share of inflows to their funds.

RCS Capital Announces Initiative to Establish Leading Crowdfunding Investment Platform

Acquires Assets of Trupoly, White-Label Investor Relationship Management Portal and Adds Key Executives to Crowdfunding Initiative Crowdfunding Platform to Leverage RCS Capital Expertise in Investment Identification, Research, Due Diligence, Compliance,

BlackRock gets more assets from investors

The World's biggest money manager BlackRock showed no signs of slowing down yesterday after taking assets under management to over $4.5 trillion

The Quiet Hedge Fund That Came to American Apparel's Rescue

A New York hedge fund that manages about a billion dollars in assets and looks to invest in good companies with bad balance sheets

Hedge Funds Turn to Raves, Madoff Claims on Distress Scarcity

It’s opportunistic, you have these one-offs

Sprott Gold Miners ETF Launches on NYSE

The goal of the ETF is to provide exposure to the Sprott Zacks Gold Miners Index

BlackRock launches global long/short equity fund

BlackRock has launched a new absolute-return fund for its quantitative equity team.

State Street growth falls behind top firms in ETFs

State Street Global Advisors is lagging its biggest rivals in the capture of exchange-traded funds business.

J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management names 'Manager of the Year' Among Large Fund of Hedge Funds Firms

For more than 19 years, J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management has been dedicated to managing hedge fund products and solutions

Marijuana Industry a New High for Alternative Investments?

Alternative investments comprise a quarter of the portfolios of the wealthiest households, those with a net worth of at least $25 million,

KKR Said to Buy Stake in BlackGold for Hedge Fund Growth

Kristi Huller, a spokeswoman for New York-based KKR, declined to comment.