Different Types of Mutual Funds
This is a guide to the different types of mutual funds. When it comes to investing in mutual funds, investors have literally thousands of choices.

No Load Mutual Funds: Boost Your Portfolios Returns
Investors who exclusively use broadly diversified, no load mutual funds for their stock investments often lose out on opportunities to increase the reward potential of their portfolios. This article looks at two methods investors may use to enhance the performance of their portfolio of diversifed, no load mutual funds.

Fund for the Arts Announces Its Largest Increase Ever and the Largest Increase in the U.S. this Year
The 2008 Fund for the Arts campaign exceeded its highest goal ever -- $9 million -- by raising $9,074,116.

2006 PerTrac Hedge Fund Database Study Shows 61 Percent Increase in Hedge Funds and Funds of Hedge Funds
The study, released annually since 2003, has become a widely-followed indicator of the size and composition of the hedge fund industry. The 2006 study was conducted using data from twelve major hedge fund databases, combined and analyzed with the PerTrac Analytical Platform, the world’s leading investment analysis and asset allocation software application.

Funds that protected your Money in the Storm
In the one-year period ending September 23, 2008, you should credit yourself as a good fund manager if you have not lost any money, let alone got some returns. Which coveted mutual funds in India also managed to perform the same feat? Among the mutual fund investment arena in India, debt funds for sure.

PerTrac 2009 Hedge Fund Database Study Shows Slight Increase in Assets but Fewer Funds
PerTrac Financial Solutions announced today the results of its 2009 PerTrac Hedge Fund Database Study based on a comprehensive survey of ten of the world's leading databases. While the study revealed that the number of hedge funds and funds of funds reporting to the databases fell last year by approximately 8.6%, it also showed an increase in total industry assets of 5.5%.

Uncertain Markets Fail to Dent Appreciation of Hedge Fund Administrators
Despite industry-wide anxiety about market conditions, more hedge fund administrators than ever took part in the annual Global Custodian survey of client perceptions of service quality and value. Nearly 1,200 responses were received from clients of 56 hedge fund administrators.

Great Rewards With Hedge Fund Investments
A hedge fund investment offers an alternative strategy for the more aggressive investor to branch out on the road to untold wealth. In order to amass huge fortunes, the savvy hedge fund investor may risk considerable losses. Hedge funds use flexible strategies to create lucrative returns from pooled resources.

The Committee to Protect IMH Secured Loan Fund Issues Open Letter To Members of IMH Secured Loan Fund, LLC
The Committee to Protect IMH Secured Loan Fund has announced that it issued an open letter urging members of IMH Secured Loan Fund, LLC not to respond to the Fund’s request that its members consent to the conversion transactions described in the Fund’s Consent Solicitation/Prospectus.

How to Evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual Funds
If you have been dealing with mutual funds for any length of time, you undoubtedly have faced the question of which is better: Load Funds or No Load Funds. If you are new to investing, "load" simply refers to the commission paid to the broker selling the fund.

Mutual Fund Management and Estate Planning Education
Estate planning courses can train you to understand how to measure mutual fund growth and performance. It can be complicated to handle estate planning, especially when you are uncertain about the best ways to take full advantage of the estate?s value. An estate planning education can show you how to reduce expenses and handle wills, trusts, and other important legal documents. It?s important to understand mutual funds and their performance as it is a part of an estate.

Results of 2008 PerTrac Hedge Fund Database Study Reveal 1.3% Fewer Funds and 36.1% Drop in AUM
PerTrac Financial Solutions today announced the aggregate results of the 2008 PerTrac Hedge Fund Database Study, revealing a 1.3% drop in the number of hedge funds and funds of hedge funds included in major hedge fund databases since last year's study.

Large Hedge Funds Have Outperformed Smaller Hedge Funds in 2008
AlternativeSoft, a software company focusing on measuring hedge funds and fund of funds extreme risks, found that during the 2008 crash (i.e. from July to December 2008), large and medium hedge funds outperform their smaller peers in terms of returns; also large hedge funds outperform smaller hedge funds in term of Sharpe ratio.

Agecroft Partners See Strong Trends in Hedge Fund Capital Raising for 2010
Agecroft Partners has observed several dominant and emerging trends regarding capital flows into the hedge fund arena. These trends identified through conversations with more than 200 hedge fund organizations and 1000 institutional investors during 2009 include (1) continued improvement of capital flows; (2) increased competition (4) increased importance of marketing; (3) extension of the due diligence process; and (4) segmentation of the hedge fund marketplace by investor type.

Wasatch Small Cap Value Fund(R) Achieves 10-year Milestone
Wasatch Advisors' original value fund, the Wasatch Small Cap Value Fund (WMCVX), had its 10th anniversary in December. As of December 31, 2007 the Fund's 10-year total return ranked it in the Top 1% of all 164 funds in the Morningstar U.S. domiciled Small Blend category (where Morningstar categorizes the Fund), as well as in the Top 2% of all 1248 U.S. Diversified Stock Funds.