Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Don’t Bet on Active Management to Beat the Volatile Market
By Bernice Napach"Active managers have nowhere to go to escape [a crisis] except into cash ... and going to cash almost never happens," says Morningstar's John Rekenthaler.
January 25, 2016
Putting the Hedge Back in Hedge FundsHedge funds can be an especially smart investment in times of market stress. The key is picking the right strategies.
January 22, 2016
Liquid Alternatives Stumble to 3.5% Loss in 2015Liquid alternatives limped out of 2015, their performance dragged down by losses in all the sub-strategies, Wilshire reported.
January 22, 2016
Stock Exchanges Are Eating Your ReturnsExchanges are quietly, yet dramatically, increasing the fees they charge for market data and access to compensate for their own dramatic declines in market share.
January 20, 2016
Investors Spooked by China but Not Yet ‘Max Bearish’: Merrill PollAllocations to equities have plummeted, and cash holdings have risen, Merrill's January fund manager survey found.
January 20, 2016
Showtime’s ‘Billions’: Ruthless Fund Manager vs. Star Prosecutor via Andrew Ross SorkinCo-creator Andrew Ross Sorkin talks to ThinkAdvisor about the Showtime series, which interweaves finance, politics, corruption and, from time to time, kinky sex.
January 19, 2016
Alt Manager Equinox Overcharged Investors, Must Repay $5.4M: SECEquinox Fund Management didn't follow the method it set out in its registration statement for calculating fees, the SEC says.
January 19, 2016
Tech Sector Slows as a Millionaire-Making MachineNew tech millionaires are being minted more slowly than in past years, a WealthInsight report finds.