Speaking Monday at the IMCA annual conference in Orlando, Mr. Kitces questioned regular rebalancing and said in one case doing nothing was the better bet.
Jeffrey Kolitch, manager of the Baron Real Estate fund, says investors should look at cruise-line companies, cell-tower operators, casinos and companies involved in real estate infrastructure.
Regulators concerned about systematic risk in a market rout.
It is the second large group of wholesalers to migrate to another firm en masse from the defunct Realty Capital Securities, a unit of RCS Capital Corp.
It's no secret that strategic-beta exchange-traded products have become a pervasive part of the marketplace, rewarding investors with innovative tools to diversify and fine-tune portfolios in ways traditional market-capitalization-weighted indexes don't allow.
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Recent SEC filing by the fund giant hints at new funds in the works.
Many advisers are putting investors into low-cost ETFs and simply dumping most of their clients' actively managed funds.
Massachusetts Democrat calls Stamford Harbor a 'mockery' of the SEC's mission.
Advisers need to communicate that while upcoming account statements may look a bit different than before, the alternative investments in clients' portfolios remain fundamentally unaffected.
High valuations, low interest rates spell lower annual returns of 5% or less; timber seen as best bet
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The inflow was the most since January 2013, thanks to the market's extreme volatility during 2016's start.
The agency's final reg will allow the asset class to be sold after all.
In complaint, regulator says that almost 95% of VFG Securities' revenues were generated from nontraded REITs and other direct participation programs. B-D owner claims he is the victim of “character assassination."
The firm could create its own REIT sponsor and wholesaler or take a run at an established one like NorthStar Asset Management Group Inc.
Source says firm eyes creating, managing nontraded REITs for brokers and advisers to sell.
RCS was recently closed after paying Massachusetts $3 million to settle charges that it fraudulently rounded up proxy votes for real estate deals.
The money management behemoth can improve the smart beta landscape in three important ways.
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