Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
IMCA Raises Standards for Its Certificants
By James J. GreenThe Investment Management Consultants Association announced changes in its certification process to attendees of its Consultants Conference in New York on January 12.
January 19, 2009
William Glavin, Jr.William Glavin, Jr. has been appointed chief executive officer of Oppenheimer Funds Inc. He has headed MassMutual's U.S. Insurance Group since March 2006.
January 15, 2009
2009 looks bad for hedge fundsThe hedge fund industry lost 7 percent of funds in the first three quarters of 2008, the Associated Press reports. That's up more than 70...
January 12, 2009
Fund managers optimistic for 2009Global consulting firm Watson Wyatt highlights a generally optimistic outlook for 2009 from fund managers. Watson Wyatt's recent survey of fund managers, who collectively have assets...
January 04, 2009
Humpty's WoesHaving gotten through 2008 with portfolios battered and confidence shattered, I guess we all pretty much know how Queen Elizabeth felt when she described 1992 as an "annus horribilis" for her and the other royals.
January 01, 2009
Insurers Brace For Commercial Mortgage TurmoilThe top 25 U.S. life insurers held about $116 billion in commercial mortgage-backed securities in 2007, and those securities accounted for 3.9% of the insurers' $3 trillion in 2007 total net admitted assets
January 01, 2009
Insurers Brace For Commercial Mortgage TurmoilThe top 25 U.S. life insurers held about $116 billion in commercial mortgage-backed securities in 2007, and those securities accounted for 3.9% of the insurers' $3 trillion in 2007 total net admitted assets
January 01, 2009
Nuveen Says It Has 'Positive Momentum'In 2008, Nuveen Investments wrestled with the freeze-up of the auction-rate preferred securities market and sought to restore liquidity at par to preferred shareholders and...