Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
SMA Manager of the Year Kera Van Valen on Defining 'Shareholder Yield'
By James J. GreenThe portfolio manager for Epoch Investment Partners' award-winning Global Equity Shareholder Yield SMA explains how the firm calculates an ADR's 'Shareholder Yield.''
July 23, 2015
SMA Strategist Manager of the Year Gary Miller on Modern Portfolio TheoryMiller, winner of the premier Strategist award for Frontier Asset Management, says the firm's process starts with Markowitz, "but we work very hard at better inputs."
July 23, 2015
Housing Market Mixed: Time to Buy or Hold Off?Does the decline in new home sales for June and downward revisions for April and May signal that the housing rally is slowing?
July 23, 2015
Venture Capital-Backed Companies Raked in $32 Billion in Q2Mega-round financing and bigger deals drove growth, new report from KPMG International and CB Insights finds.
July 22, 2015
Private Real Estate Funds Raised $61 Billion in First HalfInstitutional investors remain strongly engaged in the real estate market.
July 22, 2015
SMA Manager of the Year Dave Dalrymple on Small-Cap ValueChartwell Investment Partners' Dave Dalrymple says "we've made our money from stock picking, not sector rotation."
July 22, 2015
Advisors can lose clients with too much jargonInvestors are often turned off by the buzzwords and commonplace jargon that advisors use.
July 22, 2015
Advisors can lose clients with too much jargonInvestors are often turned off by the buzzwords and commonplace jargon that advisors use.