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INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 29, 2012
Who needs CDS? ETFs can do the job now

ETFs poised to overtake credit derivatives by year-end as a way to speculate on junk bonds

INVESTING RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 28, 2012
Mortgage REIT CEO was industry trailblazer

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 28, 2012
Advisers' next chore might be to clip the hedges

INVESTING RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 26, 2012
Legg Mason's Bill Miller seeks redemption as housing bull

Investors seeking alts as stock/bond mix fails to excite
INVESTING EQUITIES OCT 24, 2012
Investors seeking alts as stock/bond mix fails to excite

Natixis report says savvy advisers in catbird seat amid search for new approach to asset allocation

Finding value in unpopular alpha
INVESTING OPINION OCT 23, 2012
Finding value in unpopular alpha

If everyone is scared to go into an asset class, then there will be no competition and prices will not get bid up.

Rise in offbeat investments correlated to 'correlation crisis'
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 23, 2012
Rise in offbeat investments correlated to 'correlation crisis'

Promising asset classes include fisheries, vineyards and the movie business

To outperform, advisers must have game theory: Singer
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 22, 2012
To outperform, advisers must have game theory: Singer

Fundamental analysis no longer enough in 'unstable multiplayer world,' says William Blair strategist

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 22, 2012
First REIT case goes against Lerner

INVESTING RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 22, 2012
SEC probes giant private REIT

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 21, 2012
Nontraded REIT waives fee

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 21, 2012
SEC must hedge bets on advertising

The agency should go back to the drawing board to come up with a plan that has safeguards in it to minimize the very real dangers facing the investing public.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 04, 2012
Study: Alternatives ETFs buck trend

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 03, 2012
Alternative strategies: Addressing market risk – An alternative approach

This white paper, sponsored by Principal Funds, examines how alternative investment strategies can be used to hedge risk while seeking to achieve positive absolute returns during periods of extreme volatility.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 03, 2012
Where's the harm in hedge fund advertising?

A look at the ICI's predictable argument

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 03, 2012
Let hedgies advertise? Fund firms are furious

The SEC's plan to let hedge funds advertise Reg D offerings isn't sitting well with the retail fund industry. Here's why.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 01, 2012
Franklin Templeton further elevates alt offerings with K2 buy

Franklin Resources Inc. Ticker:(BEN) is taking another step into the alternatives universe with the acquisition of K2 Advisors Holdings LLC, a $9.3 billion funds-of-hedge-funds firm.

INVESTING RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 30, 2012
REIT dividends at issue in suit

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES SEP 28, 2012
Annaly founder Michael Farrell dies after cancer diagnosed

Fund manager built Annaly Capital Management into the world's largest mortgage REIT

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES SEP 27, 2012
Acquisition will give Oppenheimer foothold in MLP space

OppenheimerFunds announced plans to acquire SteelPathCapital, which has $2.6 billion in assets and a seven-year track record in the master limited patnership space.