Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Hedge Funds Still OK For Variable Policies
By Staff Writerby Norse N. Blazzard and Judith A. HasenauerThe financial and insurance trade press has been publishing articles in the past few weeks regarding final regulations ...
March 21, 2005
S&P Index Recovers from Slow StartNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--Standard & Poor's added its February hedge fund index returns to the growing collection of evidence that January's slow start may not be a sign of a backslide in hedge fund returns. The S&P Hedge Fund Index gained 0.83% in February, bringing its total return for the first...
March 21, 2005
Donaldson: Lawyers Need to Promote Hedge Fund EthicsThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission so far has collected US$1.4 billion in disgorgement and US$1 billion in penalties in mutual fund trading scandals, and SEC Chairman William Donaldson is on a mission to boost ethical investment practices.
March 16, 2005
Are Boomers Buying In A Bubble?ByReal estate experts line up on both sides of the are we in a bubble? question, with some saying the market is overheated, while others ...
March 07, 2005
FXall Sees Its Volume Grow, Opens Boston OfficeLONDON (HedgeWorld.com)--FXall founders have long known their online foreign exchange trading system had the possibility of gaining traction, but 2004 proved the staying power of electronic routing. Mark Warms, global head of sales and marketing for FXall, said that electronic trading has made foreign currency trading more widely available to...
March 07, 2005
Gartmore Adds U.S. Sales PositionCONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (HedgeWorld.com)--Gartmore Group added to its U.S. sales staff by hiring John Early as vice president of U.S. institutional and alternative investment sales. In a news release, Gartmore officials said Mr. Early will concentrate on marketing Gartmore to foundations and endowments, family offices and funds of funds. He will...
March 07, 2005
Diamond: Purchase of Sun World's Assets CompleteLAKE FOREST, Ill. (HedgeWorld.com)--A distressed-debt private equity fund manager, Black Diamond Capital Management LLC, announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of a Californian agricultural company, Sun World International Inc., for US$127.75 million. This is the consummation of a deal sealed by an auction Jan. 13, 2005,...
March 02, 2005
Penn Treaty Joins Connecticut Partnership ProgramNU Online News Service, March 2, 2005, 2:55 p.m. ESTAn Allentown, Pa., long term care insurer hopes to increase sales in the Northeast.[@@]The insurer, ...