Investing successfully in art has always been a bit of a quagmire: opaque, inscrutable, unpredictable, ruled by passionate collectors and secretive insiders, a dangerous game for amateurs. And collectors and connoisseurs have long purchased art o...
The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) announced a decision this week to shed its $4 billion allocation to hedge funds, saying the funds were too complex and too costly to scale to the size the pension needed them to be...
To create a strong core alternative allocation, advisors and investors must understand that alternatives cannot be judged by returns alone
While alternative mutual funds had record inflows and the largest number of fund launches last year, the top reason keeping advisors from investing in the asset class is fees, a Morningstar and Barron’s survey found.
Since 2009, the average equa...
The traditional definition of commercial real estate encompasses just five property types: office, retail, multifamily, industrial and hotel. In recent years, however, institutional investors and developers have become attracted to more niche...