Alternative Investments

Calpers offers benefits to roughly 1.6 million current and retired police officers, fire fighters and other public employees

In a recent survey WealthManagement.com asked over 300 advisors throughout the industry to share their views on hedge funds. Here’s what they had to say. Alfred Jones constructed the first hedge fund in 1949, but they started to become more popu...

Adding currency exposure – at least in the form of a carry trade product – can improve risk-adjusted returns compared to other alternative investments

As of year-end 2013, approximately $175 billion was committed to fundamental investment strategies and so-called “smart beta” or “alternative beta” implementations (according to ETF.com).  But whether these strategies and implementations are basi...

Loomis Sayles’ Macro Strategies Group expects more synchronized global growth to occur in 2014. In their 2014 Outlook, they examine what this could mean for interest rates, currencies and equity markets around the world. Register now to downlo...

Alternative investment mutual funds have seen double-digit growth in net new flows over the last five years, far better than any other asset class, according to Morningstar. So it's little surprise the number of funds boasting "...

Managed futures funds have outperformed long-only commodity plays over the last two decades. What’s behind their success?