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April 2007
Scott Bernard Nelson |
Shed Light Are hedge funds leaving you in the dark? Morningstar's extensive database might be a good place to start your research.   |
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August 2006
Jennifer Pellett |
Safe Bet? What's new in the mutual fund market. |
Registered Rep.
November 6, 2014
David Armstrong |
Drowning in Liquid Alts Liquid alternative funds, which seek to replicate hedge fund strategies in registered mutual fund structures, should play a substantial role in most client portfolios. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2007
Donald Jay Korn |
Hedge Funds Redux Despite a midsummer month's nightmare, hedge funds are still pointing to successful records and raking in money. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn |
Hedge Fund Backlash Investors deserted hedge funds in droves in 2008, angered by the perceived arrogance of managers who weren't holding up to their promises. |
Financial Advisor
April 2004 |
Advisor Emporium American General Establishes Independent Advisor Network... Morningstar To Create Hedge Fund Database... DST Vision Adds Search529... Stocks To Cash Program... |
Registered Rep.
October 31, 2014
David Armstrong |
Editor's Letter: November 2014 Since the financial crisis, money has poured into liquid alts. Morningstar research shows some $300 billion net assets in alternative mutual funds, up from $50 billion in 2008. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2008
Rich Smith |
Morningstar Blazes a New Trail Some might say that Morningstar is straying from its roots -- and that's a good thing. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2006
Bob Hirschfeld |
The New, Improved Morningstar What will Ibbotson add to the fund-tracker's growing empire? With its stock and revenues soaring, Morningstar will probably be looking for more takeover targets. For financial planners, the new firm should provide a broader set of analytic capabilities. |
Registered Rep.
August 7, 2014
Megan Leonhardt |
Ten Charts That Explain What Advisors Think of Hedge Funds Overwhelmingly, advisors consider hedge funds an alternative investment, increasingly a generic catch-all term for anything that is not a mainstream liquid security. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Long-Short Funds Catching On Long-short mutual funds have gotten more popular with investors in the last few years, as they increasingly look for low-volatility returns in an unpredictable market. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
Hedging Their Bets? Some mutual funds are starting to look like hedge funds. And many don't do very well. Most investors are better off sticking to broad-market mutual funds or exchange-traded funds. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Eric L. Reiner |
Hedging Your Bets Richard Lee Jr. presides over the 50-person Dallas advisory Lee Financial Corp. A private placement fund of hedge funds that Richard Lee Jr. uses for clients returned nearly 20% last year. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2009
Elizabeth Wine |
Hedge Funds: Are They Worth It? Strategists in the wirehouses and elsewhere say hedge funds were wrongly maligned, and that the good funds can still serve the purpose of diversifying a portfolio and reducing risk. |
Registered Rep.
June 15, 2009
Kristen French |
Hedge Funds Bruised, But New Retail Products Abound So far this year, investors and advisors seem to have put the brakes on new hedge fund investments. |
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Evan Simonoff |
The Other Side Of Hedge Funds Some advisors are using hedge funds to minimize risk, not boost returns. |
Financial Advisor
February 2007
Thomas M. Kostigen |
Firm Offers Reps Their Own Hedge Funds Independent broker-dealer First Allied's program raises questions about risk and conflicts. |
Financial Advisor
August 2010
Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Star Appeal In a few short years, Morningstar has improved its advisor platform so much that it truly has become an "office." |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2005
Bob Hirschfeld |
News Regulatory investigations into Chicago-based mutual fund and stock research firm Morningstar don't seem to have affected its newly public stock. |
Investment Advisor
April 2007
Robert F. Keane |
Morningstar--S&P Deal Morningstar and Standard and Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, announced the completion of a deal for Morningstar to acquire Standard and Poor's mutual fund data business for $55 million in cash. |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2011
Stan Luxenberg |
Hedge Funds Now Going for Institutional Money Instead of HNW Individuals While hedge funds once catered primarily to wealthy individuals, now the main clients are pensions and institutions. That shift is forcing hedge funds to change the way they operate. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2010
Ilana Polyak |
Style Setter By creating a taxonomy for mutual funds, Morningstar's Don Phillips has helped advisors build better portfolios. |
Financial Advisor
October 2011
Juliette Fairley |
Staying Afloat Hedged equity mutual funds provide protection against downside risk, but they are costly. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2006
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Behind the Star System Morningstar defends its mutual fund ratings in the face of new competition. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2004
Rich Duprey |
SEC's Spotlight on Morningstar The mutual fund information provider receives a Wells Notice over incorrect data from hedge fund Rock Canyon Top Flight. |
Investment Advisor
October 2007
Ronald W. Roge |
To Hedge or Not to Hedge The underlying premise of hedge funds, to reduce volatility in a portfolio, is not in itself flawed. What can we do, as fiduciaries, to use them to achieve the performance necessary to meet our clients' long-term financial objectives? |
Financial Advisor
January 2007
Sydney LeBlanc |
The Lost Art Of Consulting Technology streamlines a messy, time-consuming process, but some financial advisors and other consultants still like to get their hands dirty. |
Registered Rep.
June 16, 2011 |
New on RepTV: Advisor Insights In our "Advisor Insights" video series, Registered Rep. senior editor Jerry Gleeson sits down with advisors from across the country to find out what individuals are doing on a daily basis to improve their own businesses. |
Investment Advisor
December 2005
Savita Iyer |
Transatlantic Teachers Hedge funds are big news in the U.S., but old news in Europe. What can we learn from Europe's approach to hedge funds? |
Financial Advisor
April 2010
Jeff Schlegel |
An Alternative World A growing number of financial advisors and their clients are clamoring for alternative investments in the wake of the massive market maelstrom of '08-'09, but it's a broad space requiring lots of due diligence. |
Registered Rep.
March 30, 2006
John Churchill |
Mutual Fund Performance Overstated, Says Study Actively managed mutual funds have done worse than is generally thought. Those, at least, are the findings of a study released yesterday covering a ten-year period of performance figures reported by Morningstar. |
Investment Advisor
August 2010
Marlene Y. Satter |
Morningstar to Rate 529 Plans Morningstar, which has researched 529 plans for years, is now adding a qualitative rating system for the plans, and quantitative ratings on 529 options within the plans. |
Investment Advisor
June 2010 |
The Seed Investors' Hedge Fund Opportunity The next generation of hedge fund managers is much more process-driven and institutionally minded than pre-crisis managers. |
Financial Advisor
September 2006
Joel Bruckenstein |
Technology Roundup Upgraded versions of Junxure-i and Workstation Office offer new capabilities and opportunities... Advisor Workstation Office Portfolio Accounting System... Advent... etc. |
Registered Rep.
January 8, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
A Hedge Fund Resurgence There is legislation in Congress that would require hedge funds to make greater disclosures about the details of their operations. The increased regulation coupled with a recent uptick in hedge fund performance will likely entice some advisors to put their clients back into hedge funds. |
Investment Advisor
January 2008
Bob Clark |
Part of the Solution For financial advisors, a fund you run yourself (with help) can solve some thorny issues. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2011
Suzanne McGee |
Hedging the Risk It's hard for most advisors to undertake the level of due diligence required to figure out which hedge fund managers can genuinely add alpha, and which ones are breaking the law. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn |
How Super Are Hedge Funds? They're today's happening investment, but advisers and clients who are swooning over hedge funds should bear in mind that there are many reasons these super-investments don't deserve their glorified image. |
The Motley Fool
December 12, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Morningstar Gets Brighter Financial research specialist Morningstar intends to buy Ibbotson Associates. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2008
Rich Smith |
Morningstar Shines On Let's break down Morningstar's quarterly report and take a look at how all three of their segment's fared individually. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2008
Stacy Schultz |
What's the Alternative? Bank of America Alternative Investment Solutions studies high-net- worth investors' attitudes toward alternative investments. |
Registered Rep.
February 20, 2006
Kevin Burke |
MFS Chairman Blasts Hedge Funds at NICSA Confab The chairman of fund complex MFS Investment Management is calling for the formation of a task force to overhaul performance reporting for hedge funds. |
Investment Advisor
June 2010
Bob Clark |
Clark at Large: Investing Like the Big Boys Alternatives can make a big difference in client portfolios. |
Registered Rep.
April 18, 2011
Diana Britton |
Move Over Morningstar: Advisors Tout Ease of Use of Putnam's New Fund Tool Putnam Investments rolls out its new FundVisualizer, an open-architecture tool that allows advisors to research and compare over 10,000 mutual fund and ETF offerings through a web-based interface. |
Registered Rep.
December 2, 2010
Diana Britton |
Asset Managers Push Out New Alternatives For Retail To satisfy demand, asset managers have been busy rolling out new alternative products specifically designed for non-accredited investors. |
Investment Advisor
March 2007
Kathleen M. McBride |
From Morningstar, Select Stock Baskets Advisors looking at separately managed accounts may want to examine a new offering from Morningstar Investment Services -- Managed Portfolios Select Stock Baskets. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg |
From Complexity to Simplicity And Back Using plain-vanilla mutual funds, retail advisors can build low-correlating portfolios, like absolute-return portfolios. In fact, the sophisticated financial advisor is performing like a mini-institutional consultant of yore. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2002
Dave Tsujimoto |
In Defense of Hedge Funds Here's why any rep with high-net-worth clients ought to become familiar with the nuances of hedge funds. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2012
Allan S. Roth |
Unappealing Alternatives: Investors Flock to Alternative Mutual Funds and ETFs Investors have been flocking to alternative mutual funds and ETFs - and are being punished for it. |
Investment Advisor
August 2006
Kathleen M. Mcbride |
News: Ibbotson on Asset Allocation Here Roger Ibbotson, chairman and CEO of hedge fund Zebra Capital Management, discusses how advisors can guide their clients to retirement portfolio allocations that fund longer retirements, as well as keep them comfortable when markets gyrate. |
