Hedge Funds
The latest hedge funds news to help advisors understand how these alternative investments can help boost portfolio returns and reduce risk.
Hedging And Protecting VA Blocks Against Turbulence
By Tom Crawford, Al Dal PortoEven though hedging programs helped preserve billions of dollars of assets for insurers, increasing losses in those programs were still a main contributor to deterioration of insurers' net financial results in late 2008 and early 2009
July 24, 2009
Is the Worst Over for Global Hedge Funds?Cerulli Associates saysin their Quantitative Update 2009 that the most destructive financial crisis in recent memory erased just under US $ 10 trillion in professionally managed assets in 2008--with most of the deterioration in the final quarter.
July 22, 2009
No Merger of SEC, CFTCFrank acknowledges merger wouldn't make sense, but agencies told to submit 'harmonization' report
July 21, 2009
Creative PhilanthropyAssurant Employee Benefits is trying to use a new approach to encouraging employees to get involved in the community.
July 06, 2009
403(b)s Set DefaultsMany nonprofit retirement plans are using target-date funds and lifestyle funds to serve participants who fail to allocate their own plan assets.
June 02, 2009
Editor's Choice for June 2One day Gm files for bankruptcy and the DJIA jumps on several good economic indicators. It's all a little confusing.
June 01, 2009
Pax Says Its Sustainable Funds Beat PeersPax World Management Corp., an investment adviser to Pax World Funds (Pax World) and a leader in the field of sustainable investing, recently shared the...
April 30, 2009
How low can they go?A state of Washington advisor is going to prison for six years for embezzling $300,000 from disabled clients'retirement funds.