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A Different Mix As investors suffer through this year's unstable market, the wounded are talking about alternative investments.  |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Michael Johnston |
3 Low-Volatility ETF Options Smooth out your volatility and lower your blood pressure with these three ETFs.  |
The Motley Fool August 4, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Investments You Can't Retire Without Asset allocation isn't just about stocks, bonds, and cash. There are other avenues to wealth in the financial markets.  |
On Wall Street October 1, 2013 Jeff Tjornehoj |
Are Alts Making the Grade? The most recent crop of alt fund contenders are performing like a classroom full of underachievers.  |
Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn |
Different Strokes This summer's volatile markets proved that allocating funds among uncorrelated assets really does work.  |
The Motley Fool September 3, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Make These 4 Moves and Stay Panic-Free You don't know what's coming, but you can prepare for it.  |
Financial Planning July 1, 2007 Craig L. Israelsen |
Quasi-Commodities? Here's how energy, precious metals and real estate compare with the entire commodities index as a component of an investment portfolio.  |
The Motley Fool August 22, 2011 Amanda B. Kish |
How to Lose Money in a Volatile Market Unless you want to lose a lot more money from trying to time the market, don't flee stocks when the going gets rough.  |
Financial Advisor June 2010 Michelle Knight |
Rising Rates Not Fatal Bond investments shouldn't automatically be sold off when interest rates rise. Here's why.  |
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?  |
The Motley Fool May 13, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
No Rally Can Help These Stocks For many investors, the losses they've suffered have been so bad that there's almost no possibility they'll ever earn back what they've lost.  |
Investment Advisor March 2007 Susan L. Hirshman |
Managing Fear, Maintaining Your Edge How to educate and enlighten your clients on alternative investments.  |
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.  |
Registered Rep. January 21, 2011 Stan Luxenberg |
Fund Families Rolling Out Absolute Return Funds Seeking to reach skittish investors, fund companies have been introducing a wave of absolute return funds.  |
Registered Rep. December 22, 2009 Stan Luxenberg |
Forget Stock Market Gains, It's Best to Avoid Losses Many financial advisors and portfolio managers who held to traditional buy-and-hold stock-bond portfolios are now emphasizing new kinds of diversification.  |
The Motley Fool September 14, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
This Will Still Help You Retire Rich People are laying blame in the wrong place. The mistake that most people made wasn't in using target funds. Instead, they should have understood the risk they were taking.  |
Financial Planning May 1, 2008 Mark Willoughby |
Volatility Bites For those who had begun to underestimate the impact volatility can have on managing investment portfolios, the events of 2007 and early 2008 have been a sobering reminder.  |
Investment Advisor November 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: Crafting a Better Target Date Fund A conversation with Bob Reynolds about Putnam's revamped target date funds as well as the investing environment in general.  |
Financial Advisor December 2009 Evan Simonoff |
Absolute Return Obsession With the correlation landscape changing, the interest in absolute return funds is growing.  |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2009 Amanda B. Kish |
The New Global Hot Spots Fund managers with a global reach are turning to two sectors of the market that have been on fire lately.  |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Playing Commodities With ETFs Commodities are booming. But it's sometimes hard for individual investors to participate. ETFs can make things easier.  |
Entrepreneur February 2008 Scott Bernard Nelson |
The Golden Rule Recession worries? Look past the pot of gold and set your sights on commodities.  |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Death of Bonds? You shouldn't give up on bonds entirely, but neither should you rely on them to support you without help from other investments.  |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
When Safe Investments Aren't Particularly risk-averse investors have always assumed they had one safe haven: bonds. But those who consider bonds completely safe for their money can be unpleasantly surprised.  |
On Wall Street November 1, 2011 Jeff Tjornehoj |
Finding The Cracks In Your Clients' Portfolios Which strategies are best able to deflect volatility in client portfolios when real market stress shows up?  |
The Motley Fool November 20, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Why These Big Winners Are Really Losers Some stocks have done extremely well during the rally, but they fell so much in the lead-up to the crisis that they're still trading well below 2007 levels.  |
Investment Advisor June 1, 2011 Savita Iyer-Ahrestani |
Stockpiling Commodities The traditional stock/bond breakdown is no longer enough; for true diversification, clients need to add commodities to their portfolios.  |
Registered Rep. November 10, 2010 Diana Britton |
Advisor Appetite For Absolute Return Growing While growing, advisors surveyed still largely view absolute return as a satellite holding, with only 16 percent viewing it as a core holding.  |
The Motley Fool February 15, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Market Zigzags and Your Money Unless you stick with ultra-safe investments such as Treasury bills or bank CDs, volatility and investing go hand-in-hand.  |
The Motley Fool October 7, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Count on These Investments to Save You These alternative funds didn't deliver on their promises.  |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
The New Hot Commodity With the advent of exchange-traded funds, you can find custom-made investments that allow you to participate in nearly any market you can imagine.  |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2006 Aaron Pressman |
A High-Risk Diet For Investors Why a portfolio full of commodities may not be the best hedge against inflation.  |
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Len Reinhart |
Retirement Hedges To meet your clients' needs, your process will have to include planning for each stage of their retirement years. If used correctly, alternative investments can reduce risk in lifetime investment plans.  |
The Motley Fool June 13, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Cash in on Commodities With Less Risk Let options give you a shot at getting rich without losing your shirt.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Michelle Knight |
Fixed-Income Bonding Abandoning bonds for dividend-paying stocks may seem like a "no-brainer," but think again.  |
Financial Advisor September 2012 Eric Rasmussen |
Absolute Tonic Water? Fund firms are offering an apple to investors: absolute positive returns.  |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Why This Smart Strategy Backfired Absolute-return funds seem like a great idea, but they've performed horribly lately.  |
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
BHP Billiton: Beyond the Basics This global resources giant has fingers in almost every natural resource pie. As you might expect in the midst of a bull run in commodities, BHP shares are trading at the lower end of the historical range -- perhaps suggesting that many investors don't expect the run to last indefinitely.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Volatility: Friend or Foe? By being aware of volatility and taking steps to reduce it, while also making the most of the opportunities it brings, you can not only improve your investment returns, but also avoid the anxiety of dramatic movements in your net worth.  |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Risky Investing Just Got Easier With the first commodity-based exchange-traded fund having just been launched, you can invest in commodities easily, but do you really want to?  |
The Motley Fool October 30, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Big Gains and Minimal Taxes Many fund investors will enjoy a silver lining come tax time.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Is Gold the Only Thing Worth Buying? Some commodities have even better returns than gold, but others are lagging.  |
The Motley Fool September 30, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Dump Your Losing Stocks Now! For the past six months, the market rally has given most investors a break from thinking much about losing stocks. Yet you may well still have some stocks in your portfolio with losses -- and if you do, you might want to think about selling them sooner, rather than later.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
BHP Billiton's Commodity Buffet Is it too late to make a play on the bull run in commodities? BHP Billiton is a highly diversified player -- as are rivals Rio Tinto and Anglo American -- and it's a somewhat safer option for investors who may not want to place all their money on largely single-market bets like CVRD, Inco, or Phelps Dodge.  |
Financial Planning June 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Adviser Pulse: Asset Managers' Profit Squeeze Earnings are up and stocks are holding their own in the U.S. and abroad. Assets under management are growing while operating margins remain near industry highs at above 30%. So why aren't managers happier?  |
Entrepreneur July 2003 Scott Bernard Nelson |
Can't Win for Losing A mutual fund tax quirk limits your capital losses.  |