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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
Investment Advisor
April 2007
Michael S. Fischer
Behind the Curtain RIAs and their high-net-worth clients have dramatically increased the use of alternative investments in their portfolios in recent years, and are on track to continue this trend. However, not all advisors, much less their clients, are comfortable with alternatives. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 6, 2011
Diana Britton
Do-It-Yourself Advisors Launch Alternative Funds As assets continue to flow to alternatives in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, many advisors are launching their own alternatives strategies to meet that demand. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
May 2006
Louis Stanasolovich
Managed Futures: Worth A Look Most financial advisors and the general public have little knowledge of managed futures as an investable asset class, but they offer a way to increase returns and diversification in a long-term bear market. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
May 1, 2011
Robert J. Lindner
Stabilizing Portfolios With Managed Futures Largely ignored by the advisor community, the Managed Futures Index returned 10.23% annualized over the 30-year period ending December 2010. Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index returned an annualized 8.92% and the S&P 500 returned 10.71% annualized. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
October 1, 2010
Neil O'Hara
Alternatives: Vehicles That Smooth Returns A decade of tepid returns in the equity market has increased interest in investments that exhibit low correlation to traditional asset classes like stocks or bonds. 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 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
Financial Planning
June 1, 2007
Steve Savage
Consider the Alternatives Think twice before pitching hedge funds and private equity to your financial advisory clients. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
September 2010
Jeff Schlegel
Lowdown On Alternatives Financial Advisor's Innovative Alternative Strategies conference explored alternative investments ranging from covered calls to the Chicago Cubs. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
June 2010
Bob Clark
Clark at Large: Investing Like the Big Boys Alternatives can make a big difference in client portfolios. 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
Investment Advisor
December 2005
Savita Iyer
Transatlantic Teachers Hedge funds are big news in the U.S., but old news in Europe. What can we learn from Europe's approach to hedge funds? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn
Hot Commodities Real assets are on a tear. Better yet, they offer great diversification and a hedge against inflation. The current trend probably has room to run, and there are other very real reasons to allocate a regular portion of clients' portfolios to commodities. 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
July 2010
Jeff Schlegel
Seeking Alpha, Avoiding Beta Advisors turn to alternative investments in search of returns without the volatility. 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
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
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
David Geracioti
In Praise of Gains, Any Gains Hedge funds are not the daredevil investment vehicle that they're made out to be. In fact, they might very well be an essential component of a bear market portfolio. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 26, 2012
Brad Zigler
Managed Futures: Easier To Get, But Harder To Love Obama okays advertising by hedge funds and CTAs. What effect will this have on the investment vehicles? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
July 2011
Alternatives In The Spotlight Many of the 600 attendees at the second annual Innovative Alternative Strategies conference came to learn how to use these investments in client portfolios. 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
Investment Advisor
April 2008
Upgrades The year-old Rydex Managed Futures Strategy Fund has attracted approximately $400 million in assets... Bear Stearns Asset Management launched the Bear Stearns Current Yield Fund... Sun Life Financial announced several new investment options... mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
August 2009
Jeff Schlegel
Seeking Alternatives Managed futures generate interest as people pick up the pieces of their shattered stock and bond portfolios. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 25, 2011
Brad Zigler
Managed Futures Mainstreamed Changes in the regulatory scheme have since allowed the creation of lower-cost commodity-based mutual funds and exchange-traded products which can be marketed by Series 7 folk and RIA associates. 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 Advisor
May 2011
Jeff Schlegel
Mainstreaming Alternatives Financial advisors are taking a shine to alternative investments. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 15, 2009
Kristen French
Hedge Funds Bruised, But New Retail Products Abound So far this year, investors and advisors seem to have put the brakes on new hedge fund investments. 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
Financial Planning
September 1, 2011
Temma Ehrenfeld
The Big Idea: Diversify With Futures Your clients may balk when they hear "futures" - accusing you of straying into a fantasy of an asset class that solves all our problems. Yet finance professionals have used managed futures for decades to boost the performance of stock and bond portfolios. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2010
Suzanne McGee
Other Alternatives Advisors will need to devote more time to scrutinizing the ever-growing number of new products. And with each debut, they'll have to go back to the drawing board and decide whether the product makes the grade. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
April 2007
Jeff Joseph
High-End Investors Don't Fear Hedge Fund Blow-ups The large losses of the Amaranth Advisors hedge fund last September and other similar highly-publicized failures are unlikely to deter hedge fund investing by those rich individuals who manage their own portfolios, judging from a survey of the participants in a high-end investors' club. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 8, 2010
Halah Touryalai
A Hedge Fund Resurgence There is legislation in Congress that would require hedge funds to make greater disclosures about the details of their operations. The increased regulation coupled with a recent uptick in hedge fund performance will likely entice some advisors to put their clients back into hedge funds. 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
Financial Advisor
September 2010
Paul R. Sanford
You Are Not Yale Yale's David F. Swensen held the unofficial title of investment genius for many years until his model nose-dived with everyone else's in the 2008 crash. 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
Financial Advisor
July 2012
Karen DeMasters
A Horse Of A Different Color A new study shows advisors like alternative assets because their returns aren't correlated with those of other investments. 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 Planning
October 1, 2005
David Twibell
Background Check With interest in alternative investments on the rise, many advisers are looking for new ways to evaluate which, if any, make sense for their clients. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
February 1, 2006
Joan Warner
The Case For Portable ALPHA As international markets become more correlated, the need for financial advisers and money managers to access greater diversification -- while hedging risk -- could make this strategy investing's next hot model. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
July 2007
Sharon Weinberg
MFOs And Alternatives Soup Multiple disciplines and multiple products converge in the making of independent-minded financial planners and their clients. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
September 2009
James J. Green
Danger & Opportunity: Futures Education Michael Bulley, senior VP for research and risk management for Steben & Co. in Rockville, Maryland, a firm that has specialized in managed futures funds for 20 years, on what you should know about managed futures. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
May 2010
Andrew Gluck
Private Equity Pitfalls Few advisors possess the resources required to research these deals. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
February 1, 2005
Kristen French
Hedge Funds' Surprising Appeal Independent broker-dealers are adding them at a time when the funds' returns are declining. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2002
Dave Tsujimoto
In Defense of Hedge Funds Here's why any rep with high-net-worth clients ought to become familiar with the nuances of hedge funds. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
October 2007
Michael S. Fischer
Behind the Numbers How RIAs and investors in alternative investments conduct due diligence on managed futures, private equity, and hedge funds. 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
Financial Advisor
May 2005
Marla Brill
Commodities Go Mainstream Until recently the high costs and complexity associated with commodity investing kept many investors away. But now, new products make it easier to get a pure play on commodity prices. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
August 2008
Melanie Waddell
Time for an Alternative The volatile market is sparking more use of alternative assets mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
March 2007
Susan L. Hirshman
Managing Fear, Maintaining Your Edge How to educate and enlighten your clients on alternative investments. mark for My Articles similar articles