alternative investments

Welcome to the 'alternative investments' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'alternative investments'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “alternative investments”

• Salaries frozen, down at private equity firms this year

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 667
  Filed under: Private equity For more than a third of private equity employees, employee compensation either stayed the same or declined. A recent report by alternative investment research firm Preqin estimates that 38% of private equity employees saw base salary freezes in 2009, and 6% of firms participating ...
  2 days ago

• Why It’s Time to Invest in Silver: This Precious Metal’s Rally is Just Getting Started

  
  Investment U — Authority: 556
  Why It’s Time to Invest in Silver: This Precious Metal’s Rally is Just Getting Started by David Fessler , Energy and Infrastructure Expert Wednesday, December 2, 2009: Issue #1149 You don’t have to look too far these days without hearing someone talk about how high gold prices could go. The topic is ...
  2 days ago

• KS investments to decline

  
  Biz Bites| Biz Bites blog, honoluluadvertiser.com | Honolulu, Hawaii — Authority: 120
  Kamehameha Schools plans to release its annual report for its 2009 fiscal year in the next month and you can expect to see a decline of about 20 percent in the value of their endowment. Earlier this year, the nations largest educational endowments such as Yale and Harvard reported declines of  30 percent and 27 ...
  2 days ago

• Invest in Gold in 2010

  
  Bizcovering — Authority: 130
  Gold Price Analysts reckon that the price of gold will continue to rise in 2010. One of the reasons for the continuing increase in gold prices is supply outstripping demand. This situation has been fanned by people who have taken their money out of property or real estate and invested it into gold and other precious ...
  1 week ago

• Advanta 11% Yield Investment Notes – Going, Going, Gone!

  
  Darwin's Finance — Authority: 600
  Advanta had been plastering their ads for high yield investment notes paying as high as 11% throughout my local paper and elsewhere for the past several months and I’d decided to investigate a bit further.  Given the low interest rate environment we’re in and my presumption that any company offering such a ...
  1 week ago

• Alternative investments since 2000

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Wine, classic cars and art investments offered mixed returns throughout the noughties. Jill Papworth and Patrick Collinson round up the returns Wine Fine wine was the best investment of the decade, with the top French vintages earning returns that far oustripped equities, gold and property. The average price of a ...
  1 week ago

• The Transportation Sector: Here Are Three Investments in a Sector That’s Ready to Soar

  
  Investment U — Authority: 556
  The Transportation Sector: Here Are Three Investments in a Sector That’s Ready to Soar by David Fessler , Energy & Infrastructure Expert Friday, November 20, 2009: Issue #1142 As the old saying goes, “You’re either a contrarian, or a victim.” It just so happens that one of the savviest ...
  2 weeks ago

• Private Equity Hedge Fund Secondaries

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 143
  Hedge Fund Secondary Market Private Equity Looks to Buy Illiquid Hedge Fund Stakes Private equity firms are among the potential investors in the hedge fund secondaries market.  Some hedge fund investors are still worried about liquidity after being stuck with illiquid hedge fund investments during the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Market gurus returning to same risky alternatives that blew up in meltdown

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 791
  Filed under: Investing Apparently undeterred by the second-most significant crash in the history of the U.S. stock market, the majority of institutional investors and financial advisors plan to increase their use of alternative investments despite their poor performance during last years financial meltdown. A ...
  2 weeks ago

• Survey Finds Continued Optimism Towards Hedge Funds Despite 2008 Performance

  
  Hedge Fund News From HedgeCo.Net — Authority: 440
  New York (HedgeCo.net) – Highlights of a second annual national survey released by Morningstar and Barron’s Magazine examining the perception and usage of alternative investments among institutions and financial advisors showed that hedge funds were the most popular alternative vehicles over the last five years, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Paul Compton: How bitter a pill is the draft EU directive?

  
  Hedge Hub — Authority: 133
  Guest blogger Paul Compton is head of product management at SunGard Alternative Investments . The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not constitute Reuters point of view. A recent EU report on the draft AIFM (alternative investments fund managers) directive commissioned by the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Art funds follow hopes of market recovery

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 791
  Filed under: Economy , Investing , Goldman Sachs Ask any investor, and hell tell you the best place to enter the market is at the bottom. Buy low and sell high, right? The institutional crowd knows this lesson best, and after a rocky year in traditional financial markets, many are now drawn to what seems to be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bizarre investments that turn a profit

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Shrunken heads, toys like Barbie and Action Man, punk paraphernalia and top hats can all be worth collecting, says Toby Walne The spirit of adventure and exploration in the Victorian era marks the beginning of a fascination for alternative investments that make money today. Among the earliest bizarre trades was the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Merger Arbitrage ETF to debut

  
  Goode Value Investing & Trading Blog — Authority: 100
  A merger-arbitrage ETF is coming to town, ticker MNA. It should start trading in a month or so. With expenses of 0.75%, this looks like a nice addition to portfolios. IndexIQ, a pioneer in the area of hedge fund and inflation hedge ETFs, is preparing to launch another fund, the IQ ARB Merger Arbitrage ETF. The fund ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is Goldman Sachs Paying out $650,000 Per Employee in 2009 A Good Thing?

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 143
  Goldman Sachs Compensation Structure My response to the story below: Amen .  Long live capitalism and rewarding those firms which actually do outproduce and do well over time…in an era of bailouts due to poorly ran companies and leveraged risk at the expense of tax payers I actually find Goldman’s cash ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Green Energy Investing Guideline

  
  Investment U — Authority: 556
  A Green Energy Investing Guideline by Louise Harris, Investment U Research Typically, when investors think about making money from climate change, they think about buying shares of companies that specialize in biofuels or alternative or green energy. But those aren’t the only ways to profit from the green ...
  3 weeks ago

• Liongate Fund Of Hedge Funds Dubai Expansion

  
  Hedge Fund News From HedgeCo.Net — Authority: 440
  New York (HedgeCo.net) –  Winner of the “Fund of Hedge Funds Leader of the Year” 2009, Liongate Capital Management, has opened a Dubai office after being awarded a license by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to operate from the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The $2.3 billion ...
  3 weeks ago

• Christian Stanley announces reverse-life insurance

  
  Press Release Room — Authority: 130
  In these tough economic times, people need all the help they can get.  Christian Stanley Inc. has stepped up to the plate and has created Reverse-Life Insurance. This is a new financial planning tool that enables senior citizens to receive a substantial lump-sum of cash in exchange for a life insurance policy that is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fine Wines – not your grandfather’s Investment Fund!

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 502
  Up 9.5% over 12 months, the Liv-ex 100 Fine Wine Index (below) has clawed back some of last year’s losses, when the industry’s main benchmark index fell 14.6% in 2008. So should you be piling into the fine wine market? Probably not. First off, new Asian buyers and a “whole pile of Johnny-come-lately types” ...
  3 weeks ago

• Citigroup to Relaunch Embattled Alternative Investments Arm

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 639
  In a move that seems intent on proving the great skeptics wrong, Citigroup (C) is planning a relaunch of Citi Alternative Investments, a unit that contains its troubled hedge fund operations, according to a report in The Financial Times.Unnmaed sources within the financial service major told the...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about alternative investments