I’ve been full of optimism when it comes to U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITs) --- and have been since December 2008. People called me crazy, but I was right. Here is my story....
It’s earnings season, and with Lehman, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley kicking it off this week, many investors will be asking themselves: Is the financial crisis over? (Or, at least, is it winding down?) The smart money at the sovereign wealth funds (big investment funds controlled by foreign governments) sure thought they smelled the bottom some months ago when they injected some capital into a few of the ailing Wall Street banks. ...
Many users of the popular tenant-in-common (TIC) investment vehicle in commercial real estate are hoping they have the stamina to withstand a double blow ...
When the market dives, that’s when hedge funds—well, those true to their name—are supposed to earn their money. That’s because many hedge funds are designed to avoid big losses and make money nearly every year using low-correlating absolute-return strategies. Lately mutual funds have appeared that are designed to act like hedge funds, selling short or using other techniques to produce steady results in many market climates....
News of colossal losses at one of the largest hedge funds in the U.S., Amaranth Advisors, throws yet another cloud over the alternative investments....
Best selling author Loral Langemeier tells her legions of followers to quit passively investing their savings in stocks and bonds. Invest directly, she says, in real estate and in other businesses. Why be so passive?...
Socially responsible investing (SRI) is still relatively uncharted territory for most advisors, according to a recently released study; however, since more clients are demanding SRI than ever before, it may be time to get wise....
Barton Biggs made his name as the (as one journalist put it) lead investment strategist at Morgan Stanley over a period of 30 years. A value-oriented...
Critics complain that hedge funds are too expensive for the returns they have lately been producing. Setting performance aside (which is as varied as...
Hard to believe, but true: Real estate wasn't always the hot dot. Just five years ago, the average real estate investment trust (REIT) traded at a big...
Investors looking to beat the average returns of the market will be heading to hedge funds and funds of hedge funds even more in the future, says new...
Ever since socially responsible investing began as a protest against the Vietnam War and as a lever to force U.S. multinationals to stop doing business...
The separately managed account industry continues to grow, but the investment vehicle has yet to truly take off. SMAs grew 17 percent, from $528.7 billion...
Virtually every major business publication has predicted the collapse of the great real estate bubble of the 2000s. So far, the warnings of a collapse...
The Dogs of the Dow strategy fell from grace in the late 1990s (along with many other strategies overshadowed by Internet stocks), and it has since spent...
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