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INVESTING 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

INVESTING 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

INVESTING 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

REIT motif: Property trusts still whipping stocks
INVESTING 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

INVESTING 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

INVESTING 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

INVESTING RIAS 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.

INVESTING 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

INVESTING 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.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 10, 2011
REITs outgunned stocks in 2Q

Emerging markets emerging as hot real estate play
INVESTING 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

INVESTING 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

Wallflowers no more, investors demand more alternative strategies
INVESTING RIAS JUL 06, 2011
Wallflowers no more, investors demand more alternative strategies

Skinning the cat: Lousy CD rates trigger big shift to shorter mortgages
INVESTING 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.

INVESTING 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.

INVESTING 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

INVESTING RIAS JUN 28, 2011
QA3 tangles with insurer over private-placement coverage

<a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=datajoe&amp;djoPage=summary&amp;issuedate=20100423&amp;sid=BD0426&amp;djoProjId=10994&amp;djoRecordId=290006>QA3 Financial Corp.</a>, an independent broker-dealer that was a leading seller of high-risk private placements over the last decade, in a recent lawsuit said its insurance carrier was pushing it into bankruptcy by failing to back up its coverage.

130/30 is making a comeback, managers contend
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 26, 2011
130/30 is making a comeback, managers contend

Once-highflying 130/30 strategies might be down, but they aren't out, money managers contend.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 23, 2011
Some $100 billion locked up in 'sliver' of hedge funds

Despite assurances to the contrary, a segment of hedge funds still has up to $100 billion locked up and won't allow redemptions

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 19, 2011
Another seller of alternatives goes under

Yet another small brokerage firm that sold illiquid alternative investments closed its doors last week