Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Jeremy Grantham: Not as Much Stock Doom With GDP Gloom
By John SullivanIn his quarterly letter, GMOs chief market pessimist Jeremy Grantham reviews new data related to likely lower GDP growthand presents a positive outlook.
February 07, 2013
A well-crafted letter still gets the job doneEmail and texting have not really helped hone our writing skills.
February 06, 2013
ETF Addicts to Get Fill at Year’s Biggest EventThe 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
BRIC Inventor O’Neill Checks Out Early From Goldman SachsO'Neill, who coined the term 'BRIC' to describe the emerging-markets juggernaut of Brazil, Russia, India and China, surprised the asset management world with his early retirement.
February 06, 2013
High-frequency trading to generate $2B this yearTABB Group published this finding in a summary of results from a survey on the state of U.S. equities in 2013.
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.