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ALTERNATIVES JUL 25, 2014
Sluggish economy helping REIT performance

Demand overshoots supply, supporting higher occupancy and rents.

By Jeff Benjamin
ALTERNATIVES JUL 25, 2014
Flood into liquid alts bears watching

Understanding the investment strategy employed in the funds — long/short, managed futures, global macro, etc. — and checking the fund and fund manager's tenure is key.

By MFXFeeder
EQUITIES JUL 25, 2014
Advisers embrace liquid alts to navigate Fed policy

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Advisers go liquid to navigate Yellen Fed policy. Plus: Global stocks are loving the Fed's latest non-move, energy stocks ride high on the unrest in Iraq, an IRS excuse that the IRS would never accept from you, and political correctness has the Washington Redskins surrounded.

By Jeff Benjamin
ALTERNATIVES JUL 25, 2014
Look before you leap into liquid alts

By MFXFeeder
ALTERNATIVES JUL 23, 2014
Multialt fund: A hedge with its own risks

By Jeff Benjamin
ALTERNATIVES JUL 23, 2014
Liquidity events heating up REIT market this summer

New deals are being announced, while others are being completed.

By Bruce Kelly
EQUITIES JUL 22, 2014
Investing lessons from Lebron James

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> What bond investors can learn from Lebron James. Plus: Gold: It all depends on the Fed; commodities as a geopolitical hedge; investing in women; and golf stocks come up short.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES JUL 22, 2014
Global consumer confidence soars

Plus: Credit Suisse exits the commodities trading business, Allianz stands by Bill Gross, silver has a golden summer run, three taxes we can all dislike together, and don't let tourist scams rain on your vacation

By Jeff Benjamin
ALTERNATIVES JUL 22, 2014
Some advisers using ill-suited benchmarks to measure alts performance

Morningstar survey shows a quarter of advisers look to standard index benchmarks to evaluate 'liquid alts.'

By Trevor Hunnicutt
ALTERNATIVES JUL 22, 2014
Impact investing gets a boost from Obama administration

Executive branch wants to spur more impact investing by encouraging collaboration between government and private investors and improving regulations.

By Liz Skinner
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 22, 2014
The magic range for alternatives allocations

A panel of experts weighs in on how much clients should ideally have invested in noncorrelated assets.

By Darla Mercado
ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Claiming bad oversight, ex-rep urges investors reject REIT offer

Says adviser is lowballing American Spectrum.

By Bruce Kelly
EQUITIES JUL 21, 2014
IPOs draw heavy attention, but investors need caution

Performance history indicates that all the attention around IPOs means regular investors need to exercise extra caution.

By Jeff Benjamin
ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
RCS Capital's stock: How low can it go?

The broker-dealer saw its shares dip again on Thursday after it lowered the price of its secondary offering. That follows a 37% decline in the company's share price in the past month. Investors, however, could stand to benefit. Bruce Kelly has the story.

By Bruce Kelly
ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Rich payday for Schorsch and his partners

Between <a href=&quot;http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140529/FREE/140529913&quot;>RCAP's stock offering</a> and real estate firm's executive comp plan, Nicholas Schorsch and his team could enjoy a multimillion-dollar payday.

By Bruce Kelly
ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Tony Thompson exits nontraded REIT business

In stunning turnaround, the noted real estate investor gets $1.07 million for his shares in disputed REIT, ending a <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/article/20131029/FREE/131029892&quot;" target="&quot;_blank&quot;" rel="noopener noreferrer">proxy fight</a>. But the story's not over. <i>(See also: <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/article/20130120/REG/301209971&quot;" target="&quot;_blank&quot;" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tony Thompson's hard times</a>)</i>

By Bruce Kelly
ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Real estate investor Tony Thompson fights back as proxy battle looms

Noted real estate investor Tony Thompson, enmeshed in a proxy fight for control over a nontraded real estate investment trust he launched in 2009 but was ousted from in August, is fighting back.

By Bruce Kelly
ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Real estate investor Thompson defrauded investors, Finra claims

Finra claims that the noted real estate investor Tony Thompson defrauded investors in a $50 million note program.

By Bruce Kelly
ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Investor sues Berthel Fisher over failed Tony Thompson deal

Berthel Fisher, not long after settling most of their claims over DBSI, gets hit with a lawsuit over a failed private placement notes deal by a noted real estate investor. Bruce Kelly has the details.

By Bruce Kelly
ALTERNATIVES JUL 18, 2014
House approves changes to Dodd-Frank law

Revisions are a sign of pressure to come on the financial reform package.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.