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INVESTING ALTERNATIVES AUG 07, 2011
Commonwealth, LPL sold troubled private placement

After avoiding the pitfalls of disastrous Regulation D deals over the past decade, Commonwealth Financial Network and LPL Financial LLC are contending with potential fallout from a real estate private placement that faces pressure from its creditors

By Bruce Kelly
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES AUG 05, 2011
Buzz: Commonwealth, LPL could see fallout from Reg D deal they sold

Commonwealth Financial Network and LPL Financial LLC are contending with potential fallout from a real estate private placement they sold that faces pressure from its creditors.

By Doug Cubberley
The 'perfect time' for a covered-call strategy? One PM thinks so
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES AUG 04, 2011
The 'perfect time' for a covered-call strategy? One PM thinks so

Van Hulzen Asset Management's new Iron Horse Fund will follow an options strategy that the $250 million shop has been applying in separate accounts for nearly a decade.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES AUG 03, 2011
Special report: Alternative investments

Despite a spotty record -- and a market rebound -- investors are pouring money into risk-reducing vehicles.

By Mark Bruno
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES AUG 03, 2011
Pooling resources creates a wealth of alternative assets

Alternatives are such an integral part of Matrix Wealth Advisors Inc.'s philosophy that the fee-only firm has a pooled fund devoted to the category

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES AUG 01, 2011
Institutional investors going long/short on commodities

By Christine Williamson
With registration looming, many hedge funds say they'll follow Soros
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 26, 2011
With registration looming, many hedge funds say they'll follow Soros

With registration requirements looming, more hedge fund managers are likely to follow George Soros in opting for the family office structure over the red tape of running a hedge fund.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES JUL 25, 2011
Mobius: Another crisis is 'around the corner'

Another financial crisis is inevitable, according to Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management's emerging-markets group

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 24, 2011
AQR launches mutual fund with hedge traits

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

By Jeff Benjamin
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

By Andrew Osterland
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

By Lavonne Kuykendall
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

By Bruce Kelly
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

By Jeff Benjamin
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

By Arleen Jacobius
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

By Bloomberg
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.

By Liz Skinner
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

By Bruce Kelly
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.

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

By Jeff Benjamin
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

By Jeff Benjamin