Uri Landesman, head of global growth at ING Investment Management Americas, has moved over to the hedge fund arena as president of Platinum Partners LP, a $500 million hedge fund boutique.
If you can stomach a bit of initial volatility, now is a good time to start building a long-term allocation to gold.
An upturn is coming in the publicly traded real estate space, and investors need to be nimble to take advantage, says Ritson Ferguson, manager of the $1.9 billion ING Global Real Estate Fund
With five companies slated to go public next week, the initial-public-offering market is on track for its best two-week period since December 2007 — when there were 13 IPOs spread over two weeks.
To tap into the potential of some of the world's fastest-growing economies, investors need to look beyond the broad emerging-markets categories and start paying attention to the specific sectors and industries that actually drive performance.
Private equity funds pulled in $50B during the first quarter. That's still well below what they raised in pre-crisis days
Portfolio of just 29 stocks is constructed by screening out any company lacking at least a 10-year record of 15% or more return on equity.
In yet another example of the ever-expanding power of social media, a startup investment platform is hoping to invade the mutual fund industry's turf by hooking up investors directly with money managers via such social-networking websites as Facebook and Yahoo.
Despite a generally bearish outlook for most global markets, Gerald Buetow, chief investment officer at Innealta Capital, talks about ways to navigate through the carnage, even if that means sometimes turning to cash as a hedge.
The signing on Tuesday of the landmark legislation removes much of the uncertainty that's been hanging over the medical industry.
