Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
UBS Goes Green
By Kara P. StapletonUBS will launch the first Global Warming index (UBS-GWI), a tradable benchmark for global investments in the weather derivatives market that is created using liquid, actively traded heating degree day (HDD) and cooling degree day (CDD) weather futures contracts, which settle on the difference between the average daily temperature and...
April 01, 2007
Growth of the AffluentThere are more millionaires than ever, and their numbers are growing. According to the Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances, households with a net worth of...
April 01, 2007
Behind the CurtainRIAs and their high-net-worth clients have dramatically increased the use of alternative investments in their portfolios in recent years, and are on track to continue...
April 01, 2007
Beyond Investment AdviceWhen the phone rang that day, advisor Mary Lacey Gibson was surprised to hear one of her clients say, "My wife is making me call...
March 30, 2007
SMA Award Winners RevealedInvestment Advisor and its awards partners, Prima Capital and Standard & Poor's, announced on March 30 the winners of the third annual Separately Managed Accounts Awards.
March 22, 2007
Private Equity Funds To Pay More For HubA U.S. investment bank and a British private equity firm have agreed to pay more for Hub International Ltd., a large insurance broker, to beat ...
March 22, 2007
Private Equity Funds To Pay More For HubA U.S. investment bank and a British private equity firm have agreed to pay more for Hub International Ltd., a large insurance broker, to beat ...
March 02, 2007
Trident Completes Purchase Of Unum UnitA private equity fund managed by Stone Point Capital L.L.C. has acquired GENEX Services Inc.Unum Group, Chattanooga, Tenn., which recently changed its name from UnumProvident ...