Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Maybe now we'll find Jimmy Hoffa
By John SullivanCall it the return of big labor. I read with interest a post by John Kay in the Financial Times about how labour's (Brit spelling)...
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.
April 23, 2009
Gradante Renews Calls to Outsource Hedge Fund AuditsHennessee Group co-founder suggests third-party audits
April 22, 2009
Institute for Private Investors Survey: Cash HelpedMany ultra-wealthy private investors fared better than large institutions in the 2008 downturn, because of the investors' higher-than-usual allocations to cash, according to the latest research from the Institute for Private Investors' (IPI).
April 17, 2009
AIG Sells Private Bank For $308 MillionAmerican International Group Inc. announced it has sold its AIG Private Bank Ltd. subsidiary.
April 13, 2009
Barclays Sells iShares Business for $4.4 BillionBuyer is private equity firm CVC Capital Partners
April 01, 2009
Venture Populist: The Death of Equities?[This is the first installment of a new monthly feature in Investment Advisor. Longtime advisor, deal-maker, and alternative-investments observer Jeff Joseph will explore in the...
April 01, 2009
Publisher's Letter: Eye on InflationEconomic historian John Steele Gordon relates that when FDR took his oath of office in 1933, banks were entirely closed in 38 states and their...