Socially responsible investing (SRI) is still relatively uncharted territory for most advisors, according to a recently released study; however, since more clients are demanding SRI than ever before, it may be time to get wise.
Best selling author Loral Langemeier tells her legions of followers to quit passively investing their savings in stocks and bonds. Invest directly, she says, in real estate and in other businesses. Why be so passive?
Hard to believe, but true: Real estate wasn't always the hot dot. Just five years ago, the average real estate investment trust (REIT) traded at a big discount to the value of its assets by about 25 percent, on average, according to...
Barton Biggs made his name as the (as one journalist put it) lead investment strategist at Morgan Stanley over a period of 30 years. A value-oriented investor, Biggs was a killjoy during the Great Buying Panic of the 1990s, and the New Paradigm...
Critics complain that hedge funds are too expensive for the returns they have lately been producing. Setting performance aside (which is as varied as the strategies pursued), on first blush, the ante does seem somewhat dear: Most hedge funds...
Investors looking to beat the average returns of the market will be heading to hedge funds and funds of hedge funds even more in the future, says new research. According to TowerGroup, a Needham, Mass.-based consulting firm, assets in hedge funds...
The separately managed account industry continues to grow, but the investment vehicle has yet to truly take off. SMAs grew 17 percent, from $528.7 billion in the second quarter of 2004 to $620 billion in the second quarter of 2005, according to a...