TIC Investors Face Yield Compression
Mar 15, 2007
Although the co-ownership structure associated with tenant-in common properties remains in high demand, the industry is discovering that it is not immune to mounting pressures from the frenzied commercial real estate sales market. The end result...
Scandal or Goof? Analyst Tracker Icon Is Called Into Question
Mar 07, 2007
Someone’s going to get fired, fined or thrown in jail for this one. A recently released research report from a trio of finance professors claims to have found a pattern of, ahem, revisionism going on within Thomson Financial’s I/B/E/S...
International Flight
Mar 01, 2007
Retail investors are notorious for chasing performance, and they may be at it once again. Over the last three years, foreign mutual funds have posted annual returns twice those notched by the S&P 500, prompting investors to dump shares of U.S...
A Market Sell Off? What Market Sell Off?
Feb 28, 2007
When the market dives, that’s when hedge funds—well, those true to their name—are supposed to earn their money. That’s because many hedge funds are designed to avoid big losses and make money nearly every year using low...
Retail Hedge Fund Investors to the SEC: Buzz Off
Feb 23, 2007
Here’s a dose of irony for the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC thinks it needs to do more to “protect” wealthy retail investors from the secretive world of hedge funds. To do so, it is entertaining the idea of...
Customer Is King: Even for Stock Picks
Feb 21, 2007
Pay close attention to the customer when you’re picking stocks. No, not your customer (though that’s probably a good idea, too)—the customer of the company whose stock you want to buy. Here’s why: Companies that get high...
When Fund Sales Were Entertaining
Feb 12, 2007
The NASD announced today it fined three mutual fund distributors a total of $700,000 for violations of its non-cash compensation rules. One firm’s activity list for a Saturday training session—when no education and training events were...
The DIY Hedge Fund
Feb 08, 2007
The hedge fund backlash has begun. Tired of the hassles of investing in hedge fund limited partnerships, more advisors are creating their own “hedge fund”-like strategies with new hybrid mutual funds. You can do it, too.
Defeat—at Your Own Hands
Feb 01, 2007
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. Laugh at Yogi Berra's (intentional) malapropism. But the intended observation if a new path opens up to you, follow it is true enough.
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