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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.  |
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.  |
Financial Advisor October 2011 Juliette Fairley |
Staying Afloat Hedged equity mutual funds provide protection against downside risk, but they are costly.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Financial Advisor March 2007 Eric Rasmussen |
Catching Wind With Short Sails Are new strategies from long-short managers more sophisticated, or just riskier?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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).  |
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.  |
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.  |
Financial Advisor May 2004 Gene Swanzey |
Hedge Funds Can Complement Modern Portfolio Theory Active management can result in higher risk-adjusted returns.  |
Financial Advisor March 2006 Marla Brill |
Courting A New Crowd Rydex Investments hopes to move beyond market timers to mainstream financial advisors.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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...  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Financial Advisor February 2004 Evan Simonoff |
The Other Side Of Hedge Funds Some advisors are using hedge funds to minimize risk, not boost returns.  |
AskMen.com April 14, 2002 Rashmikant Patel |
Starting A Portfolio Investors can easily understand and build a portfolio that conforms to their needs...  |
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...  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Real Estate Portfolio Sep/Oct 2004 Ilana Polyak |
Hedging Their Bets Hedge funds increasingly look to REITs, but should investors look at hedge funds?  |
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.  |
Financial Advisor May 2011 Jeff Schlegel |
Mainstreaming Alternatives Financial advisors are taking a shine to alternative investments.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |