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Finding value in unpopular alpha
INVESTING OPINION OCT 23, 2012
Finding value in unpopular alpha

If everyone is scared to go into an asset class, then there will be no competition and prices will not get bid up.

By Brad McMillan
Rise in offbeat investments correlated to 'correlation crisis'
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 23, 2012
Rise in offbeat investments correlated to 'correlation crisis'

Promising asset classes include fisheries, vineyards and the movie business

By Jeff Benjamin
To outperform, advisers must have game theory: Singer
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 22, 2012
To outperform, advisers must have game theory: Singer

Fundamental analysis no longer enough in 'unstable multiplayer world,' says William Blair strategist

By Bruce Kelly
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 22, 2012
First REIT case goes against Lerner

By AOSTERLAND
INVESTING RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 22, 2012
SEC probes giant private REIT

By Bruce Kelly
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 21, 2012
Nontraded REIT waives fee

By Bruce Kelly
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 21, 2012
SEC must hedge bets on advertising

The agency should go back to the drawing board to come up with a plan that has safeguards in it to minimize the very real dangers facing the investing public.

By MFXFeeder
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 04, 2012
Study: Alternatives ETFs buck trend

By JKEPHART
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 03, 2012
Alternative strategies: Addressing market risk – An alternative approach

This white paper, sponsored by Principal Funds, examines how alternative investment strategies can be used to hedge risk while seeking to achieve positive absolute returns during periods of extreme volatility.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 03, 2012
Where's the harm in hedge fund advertising?

A look at the ICI's predictable argument

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 03, 2012
Let hedgies advertise? Fund firms are furious

The SEC's plan to let hedge funds advertise Reg D offerings isn't sitting well with the retail fund industry. Here's why.

By DJAMIESON
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 01, 2012
Franklin Templeton further elevates alt offerings with K2 buy

Franklin Resources Inc. Ticker:(BEN) is taking another step into the alternatives universe with the acquisition of K2 Advisors Holdings LLC, a $9.3 billion funds-of-hedge-funds firm.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 30, 2012
REIT dividends at issue in suit

By Bruce Kelly
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES SEP 28, 2012
Annaly founder Michael Farrell dies after cancer diagnosed

Fund manager built Annaly Capital Management into the world's largest mortgage REIT

By Gregory Crawford
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES SEP 27, 2012
Acquisition will give Oppenheimer foothold in MLP space

OppenheimerFunds announced plans to acquire SteelPathCapital, which has $2.6 billion in assets and a seven-year track record in the master limited patnership space.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 25, 2012
SSgA skips commodities in new managed-futures fund

Low-volatility offering to invest in equity, fixed-income and currency futures

By JKEPHART
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES SEP 25, 2012
Three investing lessons learned from this summer

This week should be a good time to ponder what we all learned this summer and what this means for investing going forward.

By David Kelly
Study: Alt ETFs growing on advisers
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES SEP 21, 2012
Study: Alt ETFs growing on advisers

Advisers plan to increase their use of alternative ETFs at twice the rate of alternative mutual funds over the next two years; overall alternatives use slipping.

By JKEPHART
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES SEP 18, 2012
Ex-JPMorgan exec made killing off whale of a mistake

Feldstein made money betting against the bank, then made more helping it unwind the trades; 'not a master of the universe'

By John Goff
Unreal yields see Gross trumpet real assets
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES SEP 13, 2012
Unreal yields see Gross trumpet real assets

Bond king says property, commodities a better bet for protecting purchasing power

By John Goff