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ALTERNATIVES AUG 01, 2011
Institutional investors going long/short on commodities

By Christine Williamson
With registration looming, many hedge funds say they'll follow Soros
ALTERNATIVES JUL 26, 2011
With registration looming, many hedge funds say they'll follow Soros

With registration requirements looming, more hedge fund managers are likely to follow George Soros in opting for the family office structure over the red tape of running a hedge fund.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES JUL 25, 2011
Mobius: Another crisis is 'around the corner'

Another financial crisis is inevitable, according to Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management's emerging-markets group

By Bloomberg
ALTERNATIVES JUL 24, 2011
AQR launches mutual fund with hedge traits

AQR Capital Management LLC is tapping into the growing appetite for alternative investments by launching a mutual fund that employs nine different hedge fund strategies

By Jeff Benjamin
ALTERNATIVES JUL 24, 2011
Creating a structure for making gains while minimizing risk

The recovery of the stock market in the last two years has been driven by investors willing to take on risk again

By Andrew Osterland
ALTERNATIVES JUL 24, 2011
Giving investors more options can enhance performance

Investors who held a traditional portfolio comprising primarily stock- and bond-based mutual funds took a terrible beating during the 2008 market rout

By Lavonne Kuykendall
ALTERNATIVES JUL 24, 2011
Regulator wants to firm up pricing of illiquid securities

Finra is continuing to shake up the way broker-dealers show the value of illiquid investments such as nontraded real estate investment trusts and private placements on clients' account statements

By Bruce Kelly
REIT motif: Property trusts still whipping stocks
ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2011
REIT motif: Property trusts still whipping stocks

Real estate investment vehicles rolling on with nearly 3% gain in latest quarter; up almost 33% in the past year

By Jeff Benjamin
ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2011
Big, bad CMBS are back despite reform talk

Commercial-mortgage-backed securities, one of the biggest sources of real estate debt in the last cycle, are back

By Arleen Jacobius
ALTERNATIVES JUL 19, 2011
David Lerner Associates sued over sales of REITs

David Lerner Associates Inc. has been sued by investors who claim that it acted negligently in the sale and underwriting of more than $6.8 billion in shares of the Apple Real Estate Investment Trusts

By Bloomberg
RIA NEWS JUL 19, 2011
Real estate for advisory firm owners: 'Everything is negotiable'

Financial advisers around the United States are taking advantage of the depressed corporate-real-estate market to move into bigger or more impressive office space that they couldn't have afforded before prices dipped.

By Liz Skinner
ALTERNATIVES JUL 19, 2011
Investors in Lerner REITs may find no redemption

Investors who want to redeem their shares in the Apple family of non-traded REITs marketed by David Lerner Associates Inc., which has become the target of a regulatory action, may be out of luck

By Bruce Kelly
ALTERNATIVES JUL 18, 2011
AQR creates mutual fund using nine hedging strategies

AQR Capital Management LLC is tapping into the growing appetite for alternative investments by launching a mutual fund that employs nine different hedge fund strategies.

By Jeff Benjamin
ALTERNATIVES JUL 10, 2011
REITs outgunned stocks in 2Q

By Jeff Benjamin
Emerging markets emerging as hot real estate play
ALTERNATIVES JUL 07, 2011
Emerging markets emerging as hot real estate play

Rise of middle class giving rise to property boom, says Cohen & Steers portfolio manager; Brazil tops the list

By Jeff Benjamin
ALTERNATIVES JUL 06, 2011
Re-pricing nontraded REITs: A thorny issue for broker-dealers

Independent broker-dealers and their representatives are contending with the potentially thorny issue of re-pricing shares of nontraded REITs — illiquid, long-term investments in commercial real estate

By Bruce Kelly
Wallflowers no more, investors demand more alternative strategies
RIA NEWS JUL 06, 2011
Wallflowers no more, investors demand more alternative strategies

By Darla Mercado
Skinning the cat: Lousy CD rates trigger big shift to shorter mortgages
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 05, 2011
Skinning the cat: Lousy CD rates trigger big shift to shorter mortgages

Rather than get stuck with paltry returns on money-market funds, some investors are putting their cash to better use: they're shifting into 15-year mortgages, saving big bucks in the process.

By John Goff
ALTERNATIVES JUL 05, 2011
Is Bruce Berkowitz slipping?

During his years as an investment manager at such big firms as Smith Barney Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Bruce Berkowitz learned firsthand the dangers of going along with the crowd. “You would have an investment meeting with 12 to 20 people around the table, and an idea would be discussed, and everyone would feel the need to add their input,” he said.

By Jessica Toonkel
ALTERNATIVES JUN 28, 2011
Schapiro says GSA will take over SEC leasing after $557M mistake

SEC chairman Mary Schapiro told House lawmakers that the agency's system for leasing space had “significant flaws,” and that the federal General Services Administration will likely take over that role

By Doug Cubberley