Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Black gold and black hearts
By Harry LewThe SEC has moved to halt an alleged real estate fraud perpetrated by two Michigan men. The advisors allegedly raised more than $50 million from at least 440 investors by offering them membership interests in a real estate fund paying annual returns
August 24, 2009
Hedging And Protecting VA Blocks Against TurbulenceEven 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
August 23, 2009
Hedging And Protecting VA Blocks Against TurbulenceEven 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
August 19, 2009
Couple sues AIG for Madoff losesTwo investors are suing AIG for failing to honor a fraud protection provision in their homeowner's policy after they lost money to Bernie Madoff, Dow...
August 06, 2009
Golub To Chair AIGAmerican International Group Inc. has picked Harvey Golub to be chairman of the board.
August 04, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Continues to SoftenCommercial real estate market may be indicative of the overall trepidation felt about the economy.
August 01, 2009
Numerology: Turnaround for Hedge FundsFollowing the worst year ever for hedge fund performance, so far 2009 is shaping up as quite a good one. According to Hennessee Group, which...
August 01, 2009
Venture Populist: Positive Asymmetrical OutcomesRecent proclamations in this column and venturepopulist.com blog posts that "MPT failed" in the crisis of 2008 have elicited a distinctively binary response from wealth...