In the wake of the historic real estate meltdown, it is easy to make a case for investing in non-traded real estate investment trusts.
Consumer confidence for August has turned upward, reversing a slide of the past two months, according to a report from RBC Capital Markets in Toronto.
A sudden and dramatic pullback in lending by banks in developed countries threatens to stall the global economic recovery, according to a report out today by Hennessee Group LLC in New York.
Hedge funds' recent poor performance, along with a sluggish economy, has finally given investors the upper hand in negotiating fees on these historically high-priced alternative investments.
The current pace of growth in the defined contribution arena could tilt the majority of mutual fund ownership to institutional investors by 2012, according to a report released late yesterday by Cerulli Associates Inc.
How recession-strapped consumers will spend their limited dollars is a question that is perplexing the financial markets and the pricing of consumer-related stocks.
FundQuest Inc. of Boston has expanded the offerings on its managed-accounts platform to include select alternative strategies.
On paper, the case for investing in natural gas is straightforward: It is a clean, largely domestic fuel now selling at 74% below its peak price of a year ago.
Global hedge fund assets will return to their 2007 peak level of $2.9 trillion by 2013, according to the latest research from Cerulli Associates Inc. in Boston.
Residential real estate prices gained 1.6% in May, representing the largest one-month increase since July 2005, according to an analysis by Integrated Asset Services in Denver.
