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By FINalternatives |
July 18, 2014
The Blackstone Group’s second-quarter profit nearly doubled as the firm took advantage of rising valuations.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
June 1, 2014
Investors burned by equities in 2008-2009 may be warming up to—and exiting alternatives—precisely at the wrong time.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
May 30, 2014
Equities are making new highs every week, even in the usually bearish month of May. Make sure you have a plan B.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
February 13, 2014
Dever included several insightful and amusing anecdotes regarding the irrationality of traditional investments and flawed analysis. My favorite — one I have heard before — is how people would not invest with his commodity fund because commodities are risky.
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By Devin Banerjee, Bloomberg |
February 13, 2014
Publicly traded alternative investment firm Fortress is buying back shares .
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By Daniel P. Collins |
February 1, 2014
Futures has the advantage of imbedded leverage — you are posting a small percentage of the value of a contract for margin instead of actually borrowing to get more of something.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
January 19, 2014
AlphaMetrix has been in a downward spiral since announcing on Oct. 10 that it was experiencing “significant cash flow issues” in a letter to its commodity pool participants signed by President and CEO Aleks Kins.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
January 10, 2014
In investment circles, beta refers to the return an investor should expect from a particular investment strategy.
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By Press Release |
January 2, 2014
Hedge funds remained in positive territory throughout the year, suffering a setback in June and August of 2013 as uncertainty loomed in the underlying markets following the Fed's 'taper scare'
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By Michael |
December 25, 2013
Statistics do not reveal risk. As I state in the summary for this myth, “risk can only be determined by an understanding and evaluation of the return drivers underlying any given trading strategy.”
