Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Alternatives Growing in Portfolios as Markets Stumble
By Janet LevauxNontraditional investments could grow to 10%-15% of mutual funds in 10 years, according to Cerulli.
May 29, 2012
TrimTabs: Funds Continue to Flow Out of U.S. StocksFunds flow tracker TrimTabs is reporting discouraging news for equities, saying investors continued their flight to the perceived safety of bonds in the first quarter.
May 29, 2012
Pension Bankruptcy in Tiny U.S. Territory Is a Warning of What May Lie Ahead (Huffington Post)A pension bankruptcy in a U.S. territory in the South Pacific has many worried about pensions on the mainland.
May 25, 2012
Fidelity, Schwab, Scottrade Wrestle With Facebook FalloutNASDAQ now counts 30 million improperly executed shares.
May 24, 2012
Agriculture ETP LaunchedThe United States Commodity Index Funds Trust introduced an exchange-traded product tracking agricultural commodities.
May 24, 2012
The STOCK Act’s Lameness"Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress and I will sign it tomorrow, President Obama proclaimed in his State of the Union on Jan. 24, 2012.
May 24, 2012
Selective StandoutsCertain consumer companies continue to outshine their counterparts.
May 24, 2012
The Shale Gas RushWith all of this new economic activity comes investing opportunity. And there is more than one way to play the market.