Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
New York Issues Index Product Guidance
By Staff WriterThe New York Insurance Department has issued guidance for insurers filing policy forms for equity-indexed products.Empire State officials say they are starting to get a ...
November 01, 2007
Hedge Funds Recover QuickerAs headlines buzz with the news that the subprime mortgage-related turmoil did not, in fact, leave the hedge fund industry in smoking ruins, a report...
November 01, 2007
About the ManagerSteven Romick has managed the $1.4 billion FPA Crescent Fund since its inception in June 1993, and is trustee, president, and CIO of the fund,...
November 01, 2007
New Farm, REIT FundsVan Eck Global has introduced the Market Vectors Agribusiness ETF (MOO), which tracks the DAXglobal Agribusiness index -- itself comprising 40 ADRs and common stocks...
November 01, 2007
Better Managed? More ProductiveSchwab Institutional conducted its second comprehensive advisor benchmarking study this year, RIA Benchmarking: Growth Trends Study, which included financial and organizational data from more than...
November 01, 2007
What Alternatives Do Advisors Have?For the second consecutive year, Morningstar and Research have surveyed advisors nationwide on their perception of and experience with alternative investments. [Note: Charts appear at end...
October 16, 2007
Environmentally Sustainable InvestmentsAdvisors and their clients who want to invest in environmentally sustainable assets have two new choices with the launch of Sustainable Asset Management's (SAM) Sustainable Water Fund and Sustainable Climate Fund.
October 11, 2007
xxxxxxxxxxAdditionalcopyPullquoteFoto: noLines: 43Banner--WashingtonBy Matt BradyWashingtonSenate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., says his committee will take up the estate tax issue again sometime next year.Baucus ...