Interested in finding new ways to diversify clients' portfolios, financial advisors appear to be ever-so-gingerly experimenting with alternative investments, new research by Rydex/SGI suggests. Their survey of more than 300 firms this year — 60...
When selecting hedge funds for your clients, don’t look for home runs, said Mark Willoughby, principle and wealth manager of Modera Wealth Management, during an fi360 webinar this week. Hedge funds and other alternative strategies can provide a...
For months and even years, analysts have debated and speculated on whether gold is in a bubble and whether that bubble could be close to bursting. It’s also been written about time and again in the pages of Registered Rep. But the whipsaw we...
Since markets hit bottom in the spring of 2009, hedge funds have been reviving. But the structure of the industry has changed dramatically. While hedge funds once catered primarily to wealthy individuals, now the main clients are pensions and...
These are the times that try men's souls. -- Thomas Paine
Tom Paine should have been a financial advisor. Attempting to bolster the spirits of Continentals after a retreat from a superior British force in the winter of 1776, Paine wrote, “The...
Product development in the retirement income space has exploded, and for good reason. With about 77 million Baby Boomers coming up on retirement, advisors will have to deal with a larger pool of clients transitioning from the asset accumulation...