How does a man who wanted to be a doctor end up running a peer-to-peer lending service? For Ron Suber – president of Prosper Marketplace, a company that pairs everyman lenders with everyman borrowers – it’s a tale of changing …

Traditionally, hedge funds had been illiquid investments tailored to high-net-worth players in the alternative investments space. That tradition is changing, said Kevin Mirabile, a clinical assistant professor of finance at the Gabelli School of Business, and the new areas of …