Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Janus Internal Inquiry Finds Market Timing, Stress
By Staff WriterNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)?Janus Capital identified special deals with 12 clients that resulted in frequent trades in five Janus mutual funds despite the company?s policy to...
October 01, 2003
Fund of Funds or Investable Indexes?A recent analysis by Morgan Stanley researchers revealed that hedge funds as a group have produced relatively constant (positive) alpha returns for the past 13...
October 01, 2003
About The ManagerBEN INKER Ben Inker is the chief investment officer of quantitative developed equities and director of asset allocation at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co....
September 30, 2003
Survey: Number Of U.S. Millionaire Households ReboundsNU Online News Service, Sept. 30, 2003, 12:524 p.m. EDT -- The number of U.S. households with more than $1 million in investable assets ...
September 30, 2003
Fund of Funds or Investable Indexes?A recent analysis by Morgan Stanley researchers revealed that hedge funds as a group have produced relatively constant (positive) alpha returns for the past 13 years, but this performance has varied significantly across strategies, and individual managers did not consistently generate such returns.
September 29, 2003
DPM Hires New European Marketing HeadSOMERSET, N.J. (HedgeWorld.com)--Alan Tooker was hired by Derivatives Portfolio Management LLC as head of the back-office and administration firm's marketing and client servicing in Europe,...
September 29, 2003
SEC, Feds charge Two Pa. Men with FraudWILKES-BARRE, Pa. (HedgeWorld.com)--John F. Turant Jr. and Russ R. Luciano raised $4.5 million for two hedge funds they ran by promising more than 100 investors...
September 26, 2003
FASB Proposes New Rule On Cash-Balance PlansNU Online News Service, Sept. 26, 2003, 2:50 p.m. EDT -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board in Norwalk, Conn., says it will study how ...