Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Fire Sale America
By Allison BellAn executive from a fund that buys "distressed assets" held a luncheon audience spellbound Monday as he talked about what his firm thinks assets such as consumer debt are really worth.
June 01, 2009
Venture Populist: Private PracticeThe cover story for April's The Atlantic was a timely article called "Why I Fired My Broker" in which Jeffrey Goldberg recounts the misgivings of...
June 01, 2009
Pax Says Its Sustainable Funds Beat PeersPax World Management Corp., an investment adviser to Pax World Funds (Pax World) and a leader in the field of sustainable investing, recently shared the...
June 01, 2009
Soapbox: Algorithms vs. ArithmeticThere are security analysts and financial advisors who have no fear about taking positions in derivatives based on arcane algorithms. But for some reason, these...
June 01, 2009
Directional AdvisorBob Whalen spent the first 16 years of his career in the American Express family, ending up as a group VP at Ameriprise Financial Services...
May 31, 2009
Curses ... foiled againSeveral years ago, when I was managing an insurance office, I was interviewing a prospective sales rep whom I felt had great potential as an agent.
May 29, 2009
AIG Sells Tokyo PropertyNippon Life Insurance Company has paid the equivalent of $1.2 billion to buy American International Group Inc.'s office building in Tokyo.