Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Fitting Real Estate into a Portfolio: Picket Fences or REITS?
By Brad Case“My clients own their own homes. Many of them own vacation houses, too. Doesn’t that give them all the real estate they need in their portfolios?”That’s…
August 25, 2013
Coming Soon: More Alt Strategies for Mutual Funds — Cerulli43% of asset managers are either building or thinking about building products with multi-alternative strategies, the research group says.
August 23, 2013
Peter Schiff: GDP Numbers Are ‘Government Propaganda’How do you short government data? Its a question more money managers and industry insiders are asking as widespread distrust of the government continues.
August 20, 2013
Incapital Opens Salt Lake City Office in Expansion BidIncapital, the firm run by Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts, announced on Tuesday that it will open an institutional sales office in Salt Lake City.
August 19, 2013
Time for Silver to Outshine Gold?Mike McGlone of ETF Securities says there are several reasons the humbler precious metal could be back in favor.
August 19, 2013
Hedge Fund Manager Falcone Agrees to Pay $18M to SEC, Admits WrongdoingHedge fund manager Philip Falcone and his advisory firm, Harbinger Capital Partners, settled their fraud case with the SEC on Monday...
August 19, 2013
LPL on Starting Bank: ‘Not at That Stage Yet’With a drop in private-equity ownership, the IBD can give banking operations a closer look...
August 16, 2013
Carriers to promote voluntary products on private exchangesCarriers are getting ready to tout their voluntary products to consumers who shop on new, private exchanges.