Hedge Funds
The latest hedge funds news to help advisors understand how these alternative investments can help boost portfolio returns and reduce risk.
Chess Champ? Hedge Funds May Want You
By Marlene Y. SatterWall Street loves chess, and chess champions and other gaming experts may very well have developed skills that assist them to excel in the kind of analytical decisions required by high-level investing of the type that hedge funds make.
September 26, 2011
Senate Approves Deal on Spending, Averts ShutdownEnding weeks of political brinkmanship, Congress finessed a dispute over disaster aid Monday night and advanced legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown only days away.
September 02, 2011
GAO Study: More DB Plans Are Investing in Hedge Funds, Private Equity FundsA growing number of defined benefit plans, predominately large ones, are investing through hedge funds and in private equity funds.
August 30, 2011
401(k) Investors Who Choose TDFs Stay With ThemRetirement plan participants who invest in target-date funds tend to stay with them, the Employee Benefit Research Institute announced Tuesday.
August 29, 2011
BlackRock Seeks to Run ETFs Using Own IndexesBlackRock, the worlds largest money manager, filed an application with the SEC for its iShares exchange-traded funds to follow its own indexes rather than those developed by third parties such as Standard & Poors.
August 04, 2011
‘Soros Won’t Be Last’ to Quit Over Dodd-Frank: Deloitte ManagerGeorge Soros’ recent announcement that he would henceforth manage only his family’s money did not surprise Ellen Schubert, chief advisor to Deloitte’s hedge fund practice. Schubert, in an interview with AdvisorOne, says others will follow.
July 28, 2011
Replicate Hedge Funds With ETFsThe capital markets abhor a vacuum and as exchange-traded funds grow more popular, their uses keep multiplying to fill every space that their creators and investors can identify.
July 25, 2011
Gold Soars on Threat of U.S. Debt DefaultDefault is in the air. Last week Greek woes threatened to scuttle the euro zone economy; this week, with the U.S. embroiled in a debt-ceiling-vs.-deficit standoff, investors are fleeing other holdings and sinking their funds in safe-haven gold.