Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
What Alternatives Do Advisors Have?
By Staff WriterThis past August, Morningstar and Research magazine surveyed financial advisors on the state of alternative investments. The perspective of and choices made by financial advisors,...
October 18, 2006
Principal Pays $370 Million For S.F. TowerThe real estate arm of a large insurer has made a big investment on the West Coast.Principal Real Estate Investors, a unit of Principal Financial ...
October 17, 2006
Snoopy Makes A DealInvestors have agreed to pay $5.4 billion to buy a pair of big residential real estate developments from MetLife Inc.Units of Tishman Speyer Properties Inc., ...
October 16, 2006
Hedge Funds: Still Risky BusinessDespite Amaranth's $6-billion one-week loss in September, the largest in hedge fund history, industry sources agree that the effect was little more than a blip. The fund did not default on any of its counterparty obligations, and the impact on global financial systems was essentially negligible. However, the sheer size...
October 08, 2006
Property Held For Sale A Company By Company IssueReal estate property available for sale held by the top 50 companies declined slightly in 2005 to $920.3 million from $931 million, but changes in ...
October 08, 2006
Property Held For Sale A Company By Company IssueReal estate property available for sale held by the top 50 companies declined slightly in 2005 to $920.3 million from $931 million, but changes in ...
October 01, 2006
SRI and Hedge FundsSocially responsible investing (SRI) assets have been growing at a significantly faster rate than total assets under professional management, particularly among non-profit and faith-based organizations,...
October 01, 2006
A Boon For Hedge Funds?Hailed as the most sweeping overhaul of the pension system in decades, the Pension Protection Act of 2006 is touching all facets of the financial...