Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Ukraine Crisis Over, or More Volatility Ahead?
By Alexei BayerRussias aggression comes at a particularly inconvenient time for European and emerging markets, oil and metals.
February 28, 2014
Traditional Indexing Delivers Below-Average, Not Average, ReturnsA Research Affiliates study questions a cherished tenet of index investing namely, that it produces market-based returns.
February 27, 2014
What Buffett’s Farm Can Teach InvestorsWhat investors should value, and what is a distraction, are key themes in Buffetts widely anticipated annual shareholder letter, coming this weekend.
February 27, 2014
Top Trends Driving Hedge Funds: KPMG’s MirskyThe global hedge fund industry is starting to strut again. One hot trend: liquid alternative '40 Act funds aimed at the 401(k) market.
February 24, 2014
Diversified Growth Funds: Another British Invasion?It remains to be seen if Britain's newest financial innovation, diversified growth funds, will survive a trip across the pond.
February 24, 2014
Long and Short: It’s Alts or NothingSometimes investing in traditional areas expected to provide the highest returns requires stomaching volatility. One way to reduce that volatility is with an alternative approach.
February 24, 2014
FINRA Fines Berthel Fisher $775,000 Over Sales of AlternativesThe IBD must hire a consultant to shape up its supervision of nontraded REITs and leveraged/inverse ETFs, the regulatory group says.
February 24, 2014
SEC ponders break for private equityThe SEC staff is weighing a special exemption for private-equity firms to continue collecting deal fees in the future.