Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
U.S. Real Estate Looking Up but Emerging Markets Rising Even Higher: Cohen & Steers
By Joyce Hanson"Emerging markets not only make up a larger percentage of global GDP than a few years ago, but they have grown faster than developed markets," says Cohen & Steers' Jason Yablon.
February 25, 2013
Performance Dispersion—Why It MattersRemember 2008? To paraphrase Dickens, it was the best of times for managed futures funds and the worst of times for almost every other strategy.
February 25, 2013
Equities Light Rocky Road to RecoveryWe are cautiously positive for the global economy, and for global equities in particular, as we look ahead into 2013.
February 25, 2013
Trade-worker funds can’t recover Madoff lossesWorkers were too removed to be considered Madoff customers, but still close enough to lose their money.
February 25, 2013
How First Trust’s Wesbury Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the SequesterThe outspoken chief economist of First Trust Advisors is taking Nouriel Roubini, Bill Gross and others head on in his view of the sequester in a new outlook.
February 25, 2013
Investors Seek Growth in 2013 With Alternative InvestmentsEverBanks new survey of 300 individual investors found than 52% were looking outside traditional U.S. equities for performance this year.
February 25, 2013
Despite Challenges, Spanish Banks Turn the CornerIt has been a harrowing few years for the Spanish banking system, but now, some experts believe that it is on a positive course for the future.
February 25, 2013
Bordeaux Is Back, Bumping Up Wine IndexThe Liv-ex Fine Wine Index has recovered from its November lows, thanks to buyers from China.