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Financial Advisor May 2004 Gene Swanzey	Hedge Funds Can Complement Modern Portfolio Theory Active management can result in higher risk-adjusted returns.
Financial Advisor July 2010 Jeff Schlegel	Seeking Alpha, Avoiding Beta Advisors turn to alternative investments in search of returns without the volatility.
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?
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.
Financial Planning July 1, 2006 Dan Wheeler	Hedge Funds, Unplugged Take the buzz out of the hedge fund phenomenon, and you may find less electricity than you think.
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.
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.
Financial Advisor May 2011 Jeff Schlegel	Mainstreaming Alternatives Financial advisors are taking a shine to alternative investments.
Investment Advisor January 2008 Jeff Joseph	The Year in Hedge Funds In a year marked by high volatility in the financial markets, the 10 strategies tracked by the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index outperformed major global equity indexes and experienced lower volatility than the overall markets.
Financial Advisor September 2011 James Picerno	Can Volatility Be Tamed? Yes, according to a new breed of equity hedging strategies.
Registered Rep. September 30, 2011 Diana Britton	When Investing in Hedge Funds, Don't Aim For Home Runs Hedge funds and other alternative strategies can provide a reasonable rate of return and lower or negative correlations to stocks and bonds, but they can also carry greater risk.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Michael S. Fischer	Getting In How to gain access to private equity, managed futures, and hedge funds.
Investment Advisor March 2007 Susan L. Hirshman	Managing Fear, Maintaining Your Edge How to educate and enlighten your clients on alternative investments.
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 Planning December 1, 2010 Suzanne McGee	Other Alternatives Advisors will need to devote more time to scrutinizing the ever-growing number of new products. And with each debut, they'll have to go back to the drawing board and decide whether the product makes the grade.
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.
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Angel Ubide	Demystifying Hedge Funds In an effort to soothe worries about transparency and supervision, public authorities are trying to develop new approaches to meet the public's need for financial system stability and investor protection while enabling investors to enjoy the benefits that hedge funds bring to financial markets.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2002 Dave Tsujimoto	In Defense of Hedge Funds Here's why any rep with high-net-worth clients ought to become familiar with the nuances of hedge funds.
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Steve Savage	Consider the Alternatives Think twice before pitching hedge funds and private equity to your financial advisory clients.
Financial Advisor February 2004 Evan Simonoff	The Other Side Of Hedge Funds Some advisors are using hedge funds to minimize risk, not boost returns.
Investment Advisor September 2008	21st Century Asset Allocation Over the past several years, institutional investors increasingly have opted to allocate a portion of their portfolios to alternative investments as a way to smooth out market volatility. This trend is now spreading to the retail marketplace.
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn	Hedge Funds Redux Despite a midsummer month's nightmare, hedge funds are still pointing to successful records and raking in money.
Financial Planning December 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn	Hedge Fund Backlash Investors deserted hedge funds in droves in 2008, angered by the perceived arrogance of managers who weren't holding up to their promises.
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 April 2007 Michael S. Fischer	Behind the Curtain RIAs and their high-net-worth clients have dramatically increased the use of alternative investments in their portfolios in recent years, and are on track to continue this trend. However, not all advisors, much less their clients, are comfortable with alternatives.
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Financial Advisor July 2006 Milton Ezrati	Fixed-Income Conundrum After years in which investors were able to get adequate and attractive real returns with effectively no credit risk, the fixed-income market now offers little yield or potential return.
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.
Financial Advisor March 2005 Cohen & Overgard	So Many Hedge Funds ... So Little Time Similar to concerns about the myriad of mutual fund choices, investors face a similar dilemma about how to choose a successful hedge fund. Thus, selecting a hedge fund can be a daunting task, but not an impossible one for the educated investor.
Registered Rep. December 19, 2011 Alan Lavine	Reps Face Insurance Challenges in 2012 Financial advisors are increasingly concerned about the financial strength of the insurance companies whose products they sell.
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 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?
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Michael Johnston	3 Low-Volatility ETF Options Smooth out your volatility and lower your blood pressure with these three ETFs.
Financial Advisor May 2010 Alan Lavine	Watch Your Investment Tail Advisors are using options to insure portfolios against "once in a lifetime" losses.
Investment Advisor October 2008 Maya Ivanova	War Room How the most successful advisory firms are mitigating risk on two fronts: for their clients, and for their own businesses.
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 February 1, 2011 Joseph A. Tomlinson	Send in the Clones The introduction of low-cost clone hedge funds, constructed from exchange-traded funds by using quantitative investing techniques, may let Main Street enjoy hedge fund-like results.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Chris O'Leary	The High Cost of Admission To justify their existence in client portfolios, funds of funds need to post double-digit returns in order to really experience some net (read: after-fee) gains. And 2004 didn't deliver on these promises.
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Len Reinhart	Retirement Hedges To meet your clients' needs, your process will have to include planning for each stage of their retirement years. If used correctly, alternative investments can reduce risk in lifetime investment plans.
Financial Advisor September 2010 Jeff Schlegel	Lowdown On Alternatives Financial Advisor's Innovative Alternative Strategies conference explored alternative investments ranging from covered calls to the Chicago Cubs.
Financial Planning May 1, 2008 Mark Willoughby	Volatility Bites For those who had begun to underestimate the impact volatility can have on managing investment portfolios, the events of 2007 and early 2008 have been a sobering reminder.
Investment Advisor August 2008 Melanie Waddell	Time for an Alternative The volatile market is sparking more use of alternative assets
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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?
Registered Rep. June 2, 2011 Diana Britton	Dog Days of Summer: Advisors Brace for Slow Months Ahead Advisors are expecting the summer doldrums to kick in for the stock market and the economy over the next few months, according to Rydex\|SGI's Advisor Confidence Index.