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Funds Flow to Venture Firms
Venture-capital firms are raising money at the highest rate in more than 15 years, even as the values of some once-hot startups have begun to cool.
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Valeant Investor Sequoia’s Clients Continue to Pull Money
March withdrawals from Sequoia Fund, a mutual fund with a large stake in Valeant Pharmaceuticals, reached nearly $230 million through the end of last week.
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SEC Says Former Vanguard Lawyer Deserves Whistleblower Protection
The SEC has intervened in a legal battle between mutual fund giant Vanguard Group and one of the company’s former lawyers, claiming the ex-employee should qualify for U.S. whistleblower protections.
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Hedge Funds for Retail Class Face Regulatory Reckoning
A flashy class of mutual funds that allow retail investors to tap into exotic strategies pioneered by hedge funds is colliding with the one force that threatens its growth: regulators on the hunt for systemic risk.
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The New Regulatory Hurdle for IRAs
Rollovers from 401(k)s to individual retirement accounts may slow as a coming Labor Department rule toughens standards for advisers.
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Putnam ‘Absolute Return’ Funds Often Fail to Hit Targets
Putnam Investments took a bold step several years ago in naming each of its four ‘absolute return’ mutual funds for a specific performance target, but the company hasn’t often delivered on the funds’ aims.
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SEC’s White Warns Directors to Be On Guard for Credit-Market Turmoil
Directors of mutual funds should look to the failure of a distressed-debt fund last year and probe how prepared their portfolio managers are for the kind of turmoil that doomed the Third Avenue Focused Credit Fund, SEC Chairman Mary Jo White said Tuesday.
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Michaels’s Take: Mutual-Fund Sponsors Banked on a Softer SEC
After years of enjoying lighter-touch regulation under the Securities and Exchange Commission, the asset-management industry issued an unusual plea in 2014: Please regulate us.
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Chinese Investors See Golden Opportunity
In China, which consumes more than a fifth of the global gold supply, the usual jewelry buying is taking a back seat to the buying of coins and bars by investors seeking a haven from global economic uncertainty.
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As Valeant Goes, So Goes Sequoia
Sequoia Fund benefited from a run-up in Valeant’s stock after Sequoia’s initial purchase in 2010. But the mutual fund’s performance declined recently when the drugmaker’s stock tumbled.
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Leader of Valeant Investor Sequoia Resigns
The leader of a giant mutual fund that suffered large losses from its position in Valeant Pharmaceuticals has stepped down.
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Valeant Losses Could Hurt Retirement Plans at More Than 50 Companies
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BlackRock Gold ETF Snafu Could Expose It to Penalties
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In a ‘Year of Volatility,’ Some Smaller Markets Stand Tall
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