Real Estate
Learn how real estate investing can diversify portfolio risk and enhance portfolio performance, along with the latest news and developments in this most popular alternative investment.
Revenge of the (Harvard) nerds
By John SullivanI catch a lot of flack for reading Harvard Business Review. "Egghead academics with no real-world business experience telling you how to deal with a pain-in-the-a**...
August 14, 2008
High-net-worth individuals41%: Percentage of high-net-worth individuals without a primary financial advisor. 50%: Percentage who are pessimistic about the economy in the next one or two years. 22%: Percentage who have put off or delayed estate planning. 4
August 13, 2008
Morningstar Expands Mutual Fund Categories; Adds Asset ClassMorningstar has added global real estate and currency to its list of mutual fund categories, and added "alternatives" to its list of broad asset classes,...
August 12, 2008
W.P. Carey Hires Mark GoldbergMark Goldberg, the veteran independent broker/dealer executive who most recently ran AIG's Royal Alliance B/D, has landed at W.P. Carey as president of Carey Financial,...
July 20, 2008
Real Estate Turmoil Hits Boomers Hard, Study FindsTurmoil in the real estate market could hurt the finances of many older U.S. workers who have been counting on home equity to help fund ...
July 20, 2008
Real Estate Turmoil Hits Boomers Hard, Study FindsTurmoil in the real estate market could hurt the finances of many older U.S. workers who have been counting on home equity to help fund ...
July 01, 2008
State Street Offers Global ExposureState Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) unveiled two new internationally oriented SPDR exchange-traded funds yesterday on...
June 24, 2008
Oh, the humanityMore bad news from the Wall Street Journal this week. Home-price declines continued to get steeper in April, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller indexes and the...