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  Renaissance Capital’s Kathy Smith on When the IPO Pipeline Will Thaw: The Weekend Interview

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  September 18, 2010

  When will the IPO tap thaw? Soon, says Renaissance Capital Principal Kathleen Shelton Smith, but only after we're fully into the back-to-work fall season and company executives feel more confident about where they're headed in terms of taxes, regulation, and health care.

• Are Some Commodity ETFs Victims of their own Success?

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  October 6, 2009

  The kind of success some commodity ETFs have had can breed problems of its own, problems that ETF issuers and investors are only now starting to confront and comprehend.

• Editor's Choice for the Week of August 3, 2009

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  August 3, 2009

  What's happening this week

• The Rise of Islamic Finance

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  September 1, 2008

  Islamic finance is a fast-growing sector that seeks to conduct financial practices in accordance with sharia, or Islamic law. It is a field that has...

• Tailor made

  By David Port  |  February 1, 2008

  For a financial instrument that only recently has found a solid foothold in the United States, structured products are thriving. New issuance has grown dramatically...

• Getting Active

  By Elaine Robertson Demby  |  January 1, 2008

  Early in 2007, HSBC took a $6.3 billion charge because of exposure in the sub-prime mortgage market. Shortly thereafter Knight Vinke Asset Management announced it...

• Mortgage Funds Dodging Subprime Bullet

  By Staff Writer  |  April 25, 2007

  According to the Mortgage Bankers Assn., an industry trade group, delinquencies in mortgages of all types rose to about 5% in the fourth quarter of 2006, the highest level of late payments since the second quarter of 2003. Actual foreclosures edged up to 1.2%. In the subprime segment of the...

• Islamic Investing

  By Lisa Gray  |  January 1, 2007

  In 2005, upscale retailer Nordstrom's hosted a "fashion seminar" for Muslim women at their store in the Tysons Corner Center mall in McLean, Va. The...

• Malta Vies for Onshore HF Registrations

  By Staff Writer  |  July 24, 2006

  VALLETTA, Malta (HedgeWorld.com)--Say "Malta" and most people will think of a sleepy Mediterranean island where they might perhaps spend their holidays sometime when they are closer to retirement. Those who are indeed at retirement age may be reminded of an old Humphrey Bogart film about a bird figurine. Few would...

• Japanese Long/Short Funds Top Asian Market

  By Staff Writer  |  May 2, 2005

  LONDON (HedgeWorld.com)--While most hedge funds have had a flat first quarter, some Asian hedge fund strategies fared well during the period, with HSBC AsiaHedge Composite Index posting a 2.2% gain. In comparison with Nikkei stock market, which dropped 0.6% in March, Japanese long/short equity hedge funds (US$) were up 0.7%,...