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Financial Advisor April 2010 Jeff Schlegel	An Alternative World A growing number of financial advisors and their clients are clamoring for alternative investments in the wake of the massive market maelstrom of '08-'09, but it's a broad space requiring lots of due diligence.
On Wall Street October 1, 2010 Neil O'Hara	Alternatives: Vehicles That Smooth Returns A decade of tepid returns in the equity market has increased interest in investments that exhibit low correlation to traditional asset classes like stocks or bonds.
Investment Advisor August 2008 Melanie Waddell	Time for an Alternative The volatile market is sparking more use of alternative assets
Registered Rep. January 8, 2010 Halah Touryalai	A Hedge Fund Resurgence There is legislation in Congress that would require hedge funds to make greater disclosures about the details of their operations. The increased regulation coupled with a recent uptick in hedge fund performance will likely entice some advisors to put their clients back into hedge funds.
Investment Advisor December 2005 Savita Iyer	Transatlantic Teachers Hedge funds are big news in the U.S., but old news in Europe. What can we learn from Europe's approach to hedge funds?
Financial Planning October 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz	What's the Alternative? Bank of America Alternative Investment Solutions studies high-net- worth investors' attitudes toward alternative investments.
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Suzanne McGee	The Perfect Alternative Is there an asset class for your clients portfolios whose price moves in the opposite direction to that of mainstream investments like stocks and bonds?
Registered Rep. April 6, 2011 Diana Britton	Do-It-Yourself Advisors Launch Alternative Funds As assets continue to flow to alternatives in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, many advisors are launching their own alternatives strategies to meet that demand.
Investment Advisor January 2007 Jeff Joseph	An Advisor Source for Alternatives Although hedge funds have historically been (and continue to be) the domain of the high-net-worth and ultra-HNW investor, the investment advisors that aspire to counsel this demographic have been slow to embrace these strategies in their own practices and portfolios.
Entrepreneur March 2009 Rosalind Resnick	Alternative Investments: Pros and Cons Successful entrepreneurs -- especially those who have sold companies or taken them public -- are frequently offered investment opportunities that most investors can only read about in the paper. As with any other investment, they should well understand the risks before putting money in the pot.
On Wall Street October 1, 2008 Larry Silver	Keeping It Simple Perhaps the best investment strategy for these volatile times, shared by the most successful advisors, was quite simple: Remain fully invested in a basically conservative, diversified portfolio..
Registered Rep. August 7, 2014 Megan Leonhardt	Ten Charts That Explain What Advisors Think of Hedge Funds Overwhelmingly, advisors consider hedge funds an alternative investment, increasingly a generic catch-all term for anything that is not a mainstream liquid security.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Michael S. Fischer	Getting In How to gain access to private equity, managed futures, and hedge funds.
Registered Rep. August 30, 2013 Bob Rice	The Alternative Answer The most exciting, and rapidly developing, branch of liquid alternatives is the "smart beta" category, which provides easy, low-cost access to traditional hedge fund strategies.
On Wall Street September 1, 2009 Helen Kearney	What Clients Want Now Clients are upset and they're voting with their feet. But instead of bemoaning your woes, you should view this as a time to prove your worth.
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn	How Super Are Hedge Funds? They're today's happening investment, but advisers and clients who are swooning over hedge funds should bear in mind that there are many reasons these super-investments don't deserve their glorified image.
Financial Advisor April 2008 Eric L. Reiner	Hedging Your Bets Richard Lee Jr. presides over the 50-person Dallas advisory Lee Financial Corp. A private placement fund of hedge funds that Richard Lee Jr. uses for clients returned nearly 20% last year.
Financial Advisor June 2012	Forward Progress Five experts discuss the state of the advisory business.
Registered Rep. July 6, 2006 Kevin Burke	Morningstar Joins Hedge Fund-Data Crowd Financial advisors looking for more information on hedge funds can now turn to Morningstar.
The Motley Fool November 2, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Compound Your Diversification By being aware of the benefits of diversification, you can ensure that you take the necessary steps to protect yourself and minimize the risks that you face as an investor.
Financial Planning August 1, 2011 Suzanne McGee	Hedging the Risk It's hard for most advisors to undertake the level of due diligence required to figure out which hedge fund managers can genuinely add alpha, and which ones are breaking the law.
Financial Advisor May 2011 Jeff Schlegel	Mainstreaming Alternatives Financial advisors are taking a shine to alternative investments.
On Wall Street October 1, 2009 Elizabeth Wine	Hedge Funds: Are They Worth It? Strategists in the wirehouses and elsewhere say hedge funds were wrongly maligned, and that the good funds can still serve the purpose of diversifying a portfolio and reducing risk.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Those Poor, Deluded Rich People ... A recent survey shows the misguided wealthy are at risk of not remaining rich, due to unrealistic performance goals, under-diversification and poor financial advising.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2009 Joe Magyer	Fool Blog: You Don't Seriously Still Own GM, Do You? After being told that their shares would be diluted to next-to-worthlessness, General Motors shareholders proceed to drive up GM's shares by over 20%.
Registered Rep. November 6, 2014 David Armstrong	Drowning in Liquid Alts Liquid alternative funds, which seek to replicate hedge fund strategies in registered mutual fund structures, should play a substantial role in most client portfolios.
Financial Advisor July 2010 Jeff Schlegel	Seeking Alpha, Avoiding Beta Advisors turn to alternative investments in search of returns without the volatility.
Financial Advisor August 2005 Leola Ross	Hedge Funds Are Suffering And How They Can Recover Some say hedge funds, which sprang into prominence and popularity in the wake of the 2000 stock market crash, are on the decline. But before we doom the entire hedge-fund industry, we need to examine what has gone awry and assess whether there is hope for the future.
Financial Advisor July 2012 Karen DeMasters	A Horse Of A Different Color A new study shows advisors like alternative assets because their returns aren't correlated with those of other investments.
Financial Advisor June 2007 Tracey Longo	Finding Even Greater Growth The Financial Advisor Symposium in Las Vegas focused on practice growth strategies.
Registered Rep. March 2, 2010	Check Out RegisteredRep.com's Newly Revamped Advisor Forums Want to "socialize" with other financial advisors? Discuss how to sell your book? Have a question about marketing yourself to high-net-worth investors? These and many more topics are being discussed right now on RegisteredRep.com's Advisor Forums.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Jeff Joseph	Mass Satisfaction: A recent survey shows that well-off Americans have significant holdings in alternative investments, including real estate, private equity, and hedge funds -- and they are more satisfied with the performance of those alternatives than they are with traditional assets.
Financial Advisor May 2010 Andrew Gluck	Private Equity Pitfalls Few advisors possess the resources required to research these deals.
Registered Rep. August 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg	From Complexity to Simplicity And Back Using plain-vanilla mutual funds, retail advisors can build low-correlating portfolios, like absolute-return portfolios. In fact, the sophisticated financial advisor is performing like a mini-institutional consultant of yore.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2011 Dan Caplinger	What Not to Do in 2011 Chasing performance can lead to some big mistakes. As much as you may want to be a buy-and-hold investor, one thing the lost decade taught investors is that price really does matter.
Investment Advisor April 2007 Jeff Joseph	High-End Investors Don't Fear Hedge Fund Blow-ups The large losses of the Amaranth Advisors hedge fund last September and other similar highly-publicized failures are unlikely to deter hedge fund investing by those rich individuals who manage their own portfolios, judging from a survey of the participants in a high-end investors' club.
Financial Planning January 1, 2012 Donna Mitchell	Other Assets Wealth management firms have started adding alternative investments to their menu of choices to meet the desire of clients to reduce volatility in their portfolios.
Financial Advisor July 2007 Sharon Weinberg	MFOs And Alternatives Soup Multiple disciplines and multiple products converge in the making of independent-minded financial planners and their clients.
Investment Advisor February 1, 2011 Andy Hyltin	Why Go Global in Choosing Real Estate for Client Portfolios? Deciding to invest in international REITs is easier said than done.
Investment Advisor October 2007 Ronald W. Roge	To Hedge or Not to Hedge The underlying premise of hedge funds, to reduce volatility in a portfolio, is not in itself flawed. What can we do, as fiduciaries, to use them to achieve the performance necessary to meet our clients' long-term financial objectives?
Financial Planning September 1, 2009 Suzanne McGee	The Athletic Portfolio In this environment, a good portfolio is one that rides out storms and takes advantage of opportunities -- one that demonstrates strength, flexibility and endurance. What should financial advisors do to deliver peak performance for clients?
On Wall Street November 1, 2008 Gwen Moran	Hedge Fund Havoc After a lackluster first half, investors are questioning whether now is a good time to buy low in the hedge fund world or, with the looming threats of a prolonged downturn and tighter regulation, is it time to cut their losses?
Investment Advisor August 2006 Melanie Waddell	The Playing Field: Will the SEC Appeal? Hedge fund advisor registration has been an extremely contentious issue. Some feel there will be grave consequences for the SEC and the investing public should the House bill requiring registration be shot down.
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On Wall Street June 1, 2011 Carl Resnick	ETFs: The Ideal Asset Allocation Tool? True diversification has become the primary focus of smart advisors. To the benefit of these advisors and their clients, a wide range of well-built exchange-traded funds has emerged to represent just about every asset class available.