In the early 1980s investors stampeded into commodity trading funds.
Trading mutual funds requires no special skills or understanding of how to trade.
Four billion dollars has been invested in carbon-trading hedge funds like Natsource of New York City and Climate Change Capital in London.
And ETFs are among the favorite tools of fast-trading hedge funds, which can dart in and out of smaller overseas markets so quickly that market makers occasionally have trouble adjusting share prices in time.
That of course could in this circumstance simply imply that they were not trading client funds, and that is a valid distinction, but I think the point being made was somewhat more significant than that.
On November 14th, for instance, Charles Schwab, a supermarket of mutual funds, said it was looking into late trading in mutual funds it oversees.
The idea here: look for unpopular funds trading at a discount to their net asset value.
It also has the largest market in Europe for trading in mutual funds.
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The cases stem from a long-running probe of insider trading by hedge funds, many of which are affiliated with S.A.C.
Volcker allows banks to invest up to 3% of their Tier-1 capital in prop trading, hedge funds and private equity.
How can this fury of trading make pension funds collectively better off?
There is such a thing as a free lunch, sometimes, and it's closed-end funds trading at big discounts to net-asset value.
Some Fin Reg provisions like prop trading and hedge funds phase in over many years, but resolution authority containing these wind-down provisions starts immediately.
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Trading in federal funds futures indicated an 84.0% chance that the central bank would cut its overnight rate target to 1.25% on Oct. 29, following its half-point reduction on Wednesday.
Caught in the middle Friday was Morgan Stanley, where telephones were ringing steadily in the sixth-floor offices of its prime-brokerage unit, which caters to trading by hedge funds.
Mr Rajaratnam, who is 53, is the central figure in a sweeping US government probe of insider trading at hedge funds, and the only defendant so far to go on trial.
Consulting firms say they have seen a surge of interest from banks keen to sharpen their service in everything from retail banking to prime brokerage (the financing of trading by hedge funds).
In this wealthy suburb, a few doors down from Baskin-Robbins, Meyer has built a system he claims will soon create a vibrant universe of hedge funds trading under the strict principles of the Koran.
Based on my professional experience in conducting large-scale trading investigations, I believe it's impossible to establish whether staff personal trading harmed public funds without details of investments made prior or subsequent to an official's hiring.
In a Senate Judiciary Hearing on insider trading and hedge funds, Grassley took members of the agency to task for their handling of the investigation and the firing of a former SEC investigator who is now trying to blow the whistle on the matter.
Streeter, a lead prosecutor in the Rajaratnam trial who is now a partner at Dechert, explained that the same logic applied to insider trading by pointing to compliance efforts instituted by hedge funds to combat insider trading.
John Wheeler, senior manager of equity trading at American Century mutual funds, figures the current system imposes a 0.5% trading cost (one-way) on big orders, between commissions, spreads and the impact such orders themselves have on prices.
Elia falsely told investors he had a long track record of day trading stocks and exchange traded funds to yield annual returns as high as 26 percent, and that his trading on behalf of investors was paying quarterly returns of up to 20 percent.
In other words he finds programmers for investment banks, hedge funds and trading firms, among others.
Schmucker hired Galley in 2004, and the two began trading closed-end funds for their clients.
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Note that all three funds were trading at or near new, six-month highs as recently as the end of February.
These PGR consultants and employees schemed to facilitate widespread and repeated insider trading by several hedge funds and other investment professionals.
On a smaller scale, companies such as Eze Castle Integration offer trading solutions to hedge funds on-premises or through Eze Castle hosting.
Freeman worked at SAC until early 2010 and the criminal information says he conspired to engage in insider trading at both hedge funds.
When Russia defaulted in the summer of 1998, the hedge funds and trading desks of investment banks started losing money and market volatility increased.
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