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Getting Real About Real Estate 

Feb 1, 2006

By Jennifer Popovec

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...

Hedge Funds Set to Boil 

Oct 1, 2005

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...

Why the CW on SRI Is Wrong 

Sep 1, 2005

By Geoff Lewis

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...

SMAs: More Room to Boom 

Sep 1, 2005

John Churchill

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...

Dog Days Cometh 

Jun 1, 2005

By John Downes

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...

Duck and Cover 

Jun 1, 2005

By David Bodamer

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...

There's Still Opportunity in Emerging Markets 

May 1, 2005

By Bob Hirschfeld

In 1984, Julian Mayo was a trainee at Schroders, an investment bank, when he was sent to investigate a little-known automaker in a town called Ulsan on...

Aiming Downmarket 

Apr 1, 2005

By John Churchill

For years, reps have been told that separately managed accounts (SMAs), were being The institutional-quality management, tax efficiency, transparency...

Looks Like a Hedge Fund, Smells Like... 

Mar 1, 2005

By Stan Luxenberg

Herd mentality has always been a powerful force in investing circles, and with billions of dollars now running to hedge funds, many clients might feel...

The High Cost of Admission 

Mar 1, 2005

By Chris O'Leary

Robert Isbitts, president and chief investment officer of Weston, Fla.-based Emerald Asset Advisors, is re-examining his hedge fund investing strategy...

Dearth of Easy Pickings? 

Mar 1, 2005

By Neil O'Hara

The smart money believes that once the retail investor gets hold of an investing strategy or individual security, it's time to sell. Sure enough, now...

On Neutral Ground 

Feb 1, 2005

By David A. Twibell

The recent bear market was one of the worst in history, but investors in the Calamos Market Neutral Fund, a mutual fund, hardly noticed. With annual total...

Land of Confusion 

Jan 1, 2005

Assets in separately managed accounts are growing steadily again after hitting a rough patch between 2001 and 2003, but many investors still don't understand...

The Liquidity Fetish 

Nov 1, 2004

Nicholas Tsafos

In his influential book, Pioneering Portfolio Management, Yale University's chief investment officer, David Swenson, makes the case for illiquidity. Swenson...

Taming the SMA Hydra 

Nov 1, 2004

Allen Plummer

To what can administering to a separately managed account be best compared? Arm-wrestling an octopus, some posit. Herding cats, others offer. Fact is,...

ETF Wraps Growing In Popularity 

Nov 1, 2004

Will Leitch

With the securities firms forever searching for edgy products, it should come as little surprise that exchange-traded-fund (ETF) wrap accounts are growing...

Let Us In 

Mar 1, 2004

By Hannah Shaw Grove and Russ Alan Prince

Three years ago, at the height of the equities run-up, investors had little reason to be interested in hedge funds. The intervening years have brought...

Hedge Fund Investment Styles 

Mar 1, 2004

ARBITRAGE STRATEGIES Convertible Arbitrage: Managers invest in companies' convertible securities. Typically, they will be long the convertible bond and...

Going Mainstream 

Mar 1, 2004

By Pam Black

Three years ago Barton Biggs, the curmudgeonly chief global strategist of Morgan Stanley, said a hedge funds had gripped the United States and Europe...

Corralling the Hedgies 

Mar 1, 2004

By Rick Cortez

If a recent SEC staff report is any indication, it may not be long before hedge fund investment professionals are regulated as heavily as their brethren...

The Fund Industry's Next Crisis? 

Mar 1, 2004

By Ilana Polyak

Say a neighbor pays you to shovel the snow in front of his house. But the neighbor on the other side of your house gives you 10 times as much for the...

Investing in Deadbeats 

Feb 1, 2004

By Eric Uhlfelder

Ordinarily, serious investors aim to steer clear of financial instruments that are sold on late-night infomercials, but tax liens on real estate might...

In Defense of Hedge Funds 

Nov 1, 2002

Dave Tsujimoto

Are hedge funds the next bubble to burst? If you read general interest business magazines, you might think so. In October, for example, Forbes repeated...

Shopping for Funds of Funds 

Mar 1, 2002

By Brian C. Ziv

Your qualified clients want to get the benefits of hedging strategies. But where do you start? Nobody reports on the 6,000 or so hedge funds the way Morningstar...

Hedge-like Funds for Mr. Average 

Mar 1, 2002

By Stan Luxenberg

Some mutual funds let ordinary folk take advantage of the short selling and hedging options used by the big guys....

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