Investment Insights' fund manager Sonja Uys suggested advisors ask managers these five questions before putting client money in an absolute return fund:
1. What makes this strategy suitable in a liquid format? Some hedge fund strategies benefi...
Questions abound for advisors looking at alternative investment strategies, not the least of which is why the dispersion of returns in supposedly similar strategies is so wide, whether they can perform as advertised and what part of a traditional...
Love live the Republic.
Like democracy, index funds are the worst system investors have, except for all the others. That’s the conclusion reached by Canadian investment advisor Dan Bortolotti, writing on his blog Canadian Couch Potato. He poi...
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The first U.S. landfalling hurricane in 15 months could occur this weekend, as Hurricane Joaquin gains strength and inches toward the east coast. Some stocks are surging ahead of the storm, with investors ...
Represented are the surprise Fed Rate hike of 1994, the Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) debacle in 1998, the internet bubble, the 9/11 tragedy and the credit crisis of 2007.
