Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Private Equity Emerges From the Shadows
By Jon SundtWhen most Americans shop, they do it at big department stores or online at popular websites.
June 01, 2015
Deep-Pocket Investors Ready to Take the ‘Peer’ Out of Peer-to-Peer LendingDirect-to-investor lending is about to be disrupted by institutional players, a new study predicts.
May 28, 2015
Banks Will Keep Doing FX Stuff That Got Them in TroubleEvery banking scandal brings tension between up-in-arms regulators and banks, who are like, "What? This? We've done this forever. We thought it was fine."
May 28, 2015
Billion-Dollar Hedge Fund Managers Command 92% of Fund AssetsEleven percent of hedge fund managers, or about 570 of them, fall into that group, Preqin reports.
May 27, 2015
Closing the Investor-Manager Gap on Hedge Fund TransparencyHedge fund managers have worked to meet demands for transparency without betraying their proprietary strategies to competitors, but investors say they're falling short.
May 27, 2015
Foundations’ Impact Investing Largely Talk, Study FindsMany private U.S. foundations that purport to engage in impact investing dont put much of their money where their mouth is, according to the Center for Effective Philanthropy.
May 27, 2015
Aberdeen to Buy FLAG CapitalThe move expands the asset manager's reach in the alternatives business and among investors in Asia.
May 27, 2015
Energy MLPs: Taking a Closer Look After the Oil BustLike Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, energy investors may feel like they know nothing after 2014, but here's what advisors need to know.