Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
ETF Addicts to Get Fill at Year’s Biggest Event
By Gil WeinreichThe worlds largest gathering of advisors, investors and service providers focused on exchange-traded products opens Sunday in sunny Florida where the temperatures should be about 80 degrees but where discussions of hot relate strictly to investments.
February 06, 2013
Sallie Krawcheck: Top 10 Reasons It’s Bad to Pay Bankers in StockKrawcheck says its time for large banks boards to come up with new payment strategies for executives, such as bonds, which are fundamentally risk-discouraging.
February 05, 2013
Active ETFs Thriving at 5, Says AdvisorShares’ HammanWhen asked about whats happening with active ETFs now that theyve hit their five-year mark, Noah Hamman, founder and CEO of AdvisorShares Investments, is succinct; Theyre growing.
February 05, 2013
New Frontier for the Yield-Hungry: Student LoansSkyrocketing college tuition costs and nose-diving yieldscombine the two and you may have something.
February 04, 2013
The year afterExactly one year ago, I wrote an editorial that generated much conversation entitled: Let The Bishops Have Their Bottle. The industry and the country alike were in the middle of the debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable (PPACA) and the implications that the law would have for religious organizations...
February 04, 2013
One of the Most Underreported Facts of 2012Heres a bit of energy news that didnt get the attention it probably should have.
February 01, 2013
PIMCO’s Gross: Credit Supernova Will Burn Out Money EconomyIn what may be his most apocalyptic monthly letter in a series that for years now has been explicating the new normal, Gross says that Americas money economy is like a supernovaa bright shining star that suddenly burns out.
January 31, 2013
A Strategy for More Fee Income: Adhesion’s StierAdhesion Wealth Advisor Solutionsis partnering with BlackRock to offer the BlackRock Model Portfolios in its investment strategies lineup.