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Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg
Looks Like a Hedge Fund, Smells Like For clients who cannot --- or will not --- try hedge funds, there is a compelling alternative: mutual funds that follow hedge-like strategies. Here are some options. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 28, 2007
Stan Luxenberg
A Market Sell Off? What Market Sell Off? How did these mutual funds, designed to act like hedge funds, perform when the market sank on Feb. 27? Analytic Global Long/Short... Arbitrage... Diamond Hill Focus Long/Short... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
October 2011
Juliette Fairley
Staying Afloat Hedged equity mutual funds provide protection against downside risk, but they are costly. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
June 2005
Alan Lavine
Market-Neutral Funds For Sideways Markets Inconsistent past performance means advisors must proceed with caution. Unfortunately, the funds with the best longer-term track records are closed to new investors. Nevertheless, their performance is worth noting in case they reopen. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2005
David A. Twibell
On Neutral Ground Interest in market-neutral strategies exploded during the bear market, and the funds have sustained their popularity through the market's comeback. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
September 1, 2006
David A. Twibell
When Neutral Is Good Market-neutral funds seek to minimize market risk while generating equity-like returns. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
March 2007
Eric Rasmussen
Catching Wind With Short Sails Are new strategies from long-short managers more sophisticated, or just riskier? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
July 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn
How Super Are Hedge Funds? They're today's happening investment, but advisers and clients who are swooning over hedge funds should bear in mind that there are many reasons these super-investments don't deserve their glorified image. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
William Harding
A Different Mix As investors suffer through this year's unstable market, the wounded are talking about alternative investments. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn
Hedge Fund Backlash Investors deserted hedge funds in droves in 2008, angered by the perceived arrogance of managers who weren't holding up to their promises. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg
From Complexity to Simplicity And Back Using plain-vanilla mutual funds, retail advisors can build low-correlating portfolios, like absolute-return portfolios. In fact, the sophisticated financial advisor is performing like a mini-institutional consultant of yore. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004
Anne Tergesen
Time To Hedge On Hedge Funds? New research shows that returns are sliding, and some don't help you diversify. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
December 12, 2005
Lewis Braham
Funds Made To Deliver "Absolute return" mutual funds aim for a positive result no matter how the stock market does. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
Stan Luxenburg
Going to Extremes Used as the "explore" part of a "core and explore" strategy, focus can indeed help produce alpha (outperformance). mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
August 2007
Marla Brill
Hedging Your Bets A growing group of market-neutral mutual funds have distilled the essence of hedge fund investing into a more regulated, liquid and accessible format. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
May 2006
Marla Brill
The Long And The Short Of It Harindra de Silva's Old Mutual Analytic Defensive Equity Fund is a veteran in the eclectic, newly recognized long/short category of funds. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
May 2004
Gene Swanzey
Hedge Funds Can Complement Modern Portfolio Theory Active management can result in higher risk-adjusted returns. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
March 2006
Marla Brill
Courting A New Crowd Rydex Investments hopes to move beyond market timers to mainstream financial advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg
Convertible Opportunities With prices down now, this could be an opportune moment to build a long-term position in convertibles. Despite the recent woes, convertibles have produced an impressive long-term record. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg
Escape Is Rarely the Safest Bet Don't tell Brandywine Fund that fleeing stocks for cash is a safe, conservative maneuver. Several mutual funds now have a substantial portion of their assets in cash. Is this a good idea? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
November 2003
Alan Lavine
Alternate Ways To Hedge Portfolios Should you put your well-heeled clients into unregistered or registered hedge funds? Or is it better to select a mutual fund that uses hedge-fund tactics and is managed by a registered investment company? mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
October 1, 2009
Elizabeth Wine
Hedge Funds: Are They Worth It? Strategists in the wirehouses and elsewhere say hedge funds were wrongly maligned, and that the good funds can still serve the purpose of diversifying a portfolio and reducing risk. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg
This Year's Model Now that technology is out of favor, new specialists have appeared, promising to produce returns in erratic markets. With the U.S. trade deficit swelling, several funds offer protection against the falling dollar. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2006
Zoe Van Schyndel
Hedge Fund Wannabes If you have champagne tastes but a beer budget, hybrid mutual funds can represent a practical way to get hedge-fund-like exposure. Templeton Global Long-Short... Diamond Hill Focus Long/Short... Hussman Strategic Growth... mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2007
Donald Jay Korn
Hedge Funds Redux Despite a midsummer month's nightmare, hedge funds are still pointing to successful records and raking in money. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2008
Suzanne McGee
The Perfect Alternative Is there an asset class for your clients portfolios whose price moves in the opposite direction to that of mainstream investments like stocks and bonds? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
David A. Twibell
Hedge Your Bets During these troubling times, how can advisors help clients protect their investment portfolios? There are a number of viable strategies. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008
Stan Luxenberg
Currency Plays For The Retail Set At a time when most experts expect the dollar to keep sinking, the Dodge & Cox fund is using futures to bet that the U.S. currency will rise. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
April 2010
Jeff Schlegel
An Alternative World A growing number of financial advisors and their clients are clamoring for alternative investments in the wake of the massive market maelstrom of '08-'09, but it's a broad space requiring lots of due diligence. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg
Look Over There, but Beware Though foreign shares can help to diversify portfolios, some advisers are wary of the sudden move abroad. International stocks can be volatile. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Chris O'Leary
The High Cost of Admission To justify their existence in client portfolios, funds of funds need to post double-digit returns in order to really experience some net (read: after-fee) gains. And 2004 didn't deliver on these promises. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
July 1, 2006
Dan Wheeler
Hedge Funds, Unplugged Take the buzz out of the hedge fund phenomenon, and you may find less electricity than you think. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Alan Lavine
Stars Align For Long-Short Funds Long-short mutual funds, designed to deliver returns uncorrelated with equity, so far have been living up to their expectations during the period of stock market turmoil that began last summer. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
October 2005
Matthew Hougan
Shorting ETFs Gets Sold Short Although many advisors are reluctant to short exchange-traded funds (ETFs), it's important to remember that ETFs are less risky on the short side than individual stocks, as they are not susceptible to short squeezes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
February 2006
Alan Lavine
Alive And Well The ongoing merger boom keeps feeding the risk arbitrageurs' bottom line. Financial advisors have a number of options if they want to invest clients' cash in mutual funds that could benefit from merger deals. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Evan Simonoff
The Other Side Of Hedge Funds Some advisors are using hedge funds to minimize risk, not boost returns. mark for My Articles similar articles
AskMen.com
April 14, 2002
Rashmikant Patel
Starting A Portfolio Investors can easily understand and build a portfolio that conforms to their needs... mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Neil O'Hara
Dearth of Easy Pickings? Now that retail investors are able to partake of hedge funds in unprecedented numbers, some are calling hedge investing a bubble about to be popped... Largest SEC Registered Funds of Funds... Hedge Fund Index Performance... mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
October 2007
Jeff Joseph
Sub-Prime Returns Redux August appears to have been the worst month for hedge funds since May 2006, when 70% of all hedge funds fell. The first two weeks of the month saw continued woes in subprime mortgage securities. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
October 2007
Ronald W. Roge
To Hedge or Not to Hedge The underlying premise of hedge funds, to reduce volatility in a portfolio, is not in itself flawed. What can we do, as fiduciaries, to use them to achieve the performance necessary to meet our clients' long-term financial objectives? mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
September 12, 2005
Lewis Braham
Building A Focused Fund Of Your Own Portfolios of under 50 stocks have outrun the market with less risk. Here's how they do it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg
Housewarming Come April, Merrill Lynch will remove its famous name from the brokerage's own funds to relaunch them under a new (as yet to be determined) name to compete on their own. But all the major wirehouses have struggled to sell their proprietary mutual funds. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg
Rubber-Band Man For funds that focus on one style box, the choices could be slim. But flexible managers have freedom to maneuver in flat markets. Among the most wide-ranging performers are Julius Baer International Equity and its sibling Julius Baer Global. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2004
Whitney Tilson
Buffettesque Superinvestors The author talks about 12 up-and-coming, mostly unknown investment managers whom he believes will substantially outperform the market over time. They manage money in very different ways, but all are from the intellectual village of Graham-and-Doddsville. mark for My Articles similar articles
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2004
Ilana Polyak
Hedging Their Bets Hedge funds increasingly look to REITs, but should investors look at hedge funds? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
November 1, 2012
Allan S. Roth
Unappealing Alternatives: Investors Flock to Alternative Mutual Funds and ETFs Investors have been flocking to alternative mutual funds and ETFs - and are being punished for it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
May 2011
Jeff Schlegel
Mainstreaming Alternatives Financial advisors are taking a shine to alternative investments. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Eric L. Reiner
Hedging Your Bets Richard Lee Jr. presides over the 50-person Dallas advisory Lee Financial Corp. A private placement fund of hedge funds that Richard Lee Jr. uses for clients returned nearly 20% last year. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2005
Marshall Eckblad
Hedge Funds Behind the Curtain New research shows the theoretical underpinning of a potential future line of mutual funds that will offer various hedge fund strategies to average investors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 9, 2011
Nate Wendler
AQR Courts Advisors with High-Performing Alternative Funds RIA advisors looking to add low-correlated assets at low cost to client portfolios could do well to consider three no-load alternative mutual funds from AQR, or Applied Quantitative Research. mark for My Articles similar articles