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Financial Advisor
May 2005
Marla Brill |
Commodities Go Mainstream Until recently the high costs and complexity associated with commodity investing kept many investors away. But now, new products make it easier to get a pure play on commodity prices.   |
Finance & Development
December 2008
Thomas Helbling |
Commodity Price Boom Is Over A reassessment of emerging economies' growth prospects has fundamentally changed the outlook for commodity markets |
Financial Advisor
July 2005
Marla Brill |
A Fund For Tough Times More advisors are using the Permanent Portfolio Fund as a hedge. The fund balances its position in value-oriented commodity stocks with a 15% allocation to aggressive growth stocks in about a dozen industry groups. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2010
Michael Johnston |
3 Low-Volatility ETF Options Smooth out your volatility and lower your blood pressure with these three ETFs. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Alan Lavine |
Stars Align For Long-Short Funds Long-short mutual funds, designed to deliver returns uncorrelated with equity, so far have been living up to their expectations during the period of stock market turmoil that began last summer. |
Financial Advisor
August 2004
Pauline P. Lam |
Commodity Investments Help Diversify Portfolios A new tool--resampled efficiency--helps create optimal allocations. Investors can gain exposure to commodities by investing in commodity index or individual commodity futures contracts. A third option is mutual funds. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
William Harding |
A Different Mix As investors suffer through this year's unstable market, the wounded are talking about alternative investments. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
Aaron Pressman |
A High-Risk Diet For Investors Why a portfolio full of commodities may not be the best hedge against inflation. |
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. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2010
Donald Jay Korn |
Outlook 2010: Positivity "We think the economic outlook will be better than the consensus forecast," says Paul Zemsky, New York-based head of asset allocation and multi-manager investments for ING Investment Management. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2010
Neil O'Hara |
Alternatives: Vehicles That Smooth Returns A decade of tepid returns in the equity market has increased interest in investments that exhibit low correlation to traditional asset classes like stocks or bonds. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Cautious Confidence Investors are showing signs of confidence in the economy's recovery, flooding into early cyclical sectors like industrials and consumer discretionary. But the rebound story isn't following its usual script. |
BusinessWeek
May 14, 2007
Lewis Braham |
A Two-Way Wager On Commodities Rydex' new fund allows investors to play the ups and downs of the futures market. |
Financial Advisor
April 2004
Pauline P. Lam |
What You Should Know About Commodity Indexes Direct commodity investment has a place in every investment portfolio. |
Financial Advisor
October 2010
Eric Uhlfelder |
Range Bound How can investors profit in a market without apparent trends? |
Financial Advisor
February 2008
Alan Lavine |
Fund Review: The Food, The Bad, The Ugly Several analysts give their predictions of the year to come in the fund market. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Recovery, Interrupted From January through the end of April, investors' confidence in an economic recovery buoyed strong performances in equity exchange-traded funds. |
BusinessWeek
September 16, 2010
Whitney Kisling |
As Market Pessimism Grows, Should You Buy Stocks? Investors are disenchanted with the market. To contrarians, that constitutes signs of a rally |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2008
Suzanne McGee |
The Perfect Alternative Is there an asset class for your clients portfolios whose price moves in the opposite direction to that of mainstream investments like stocks and bonds? |
Financial Advisor
August 2008
Marla Brill |
Harvest In Agricultural ETFs Although a sharp pullback could be coming, some advisors think commodities are good long-term plays. |
Investment Advisor
October 2008
Jeff Joseph |
More Hedge Fund Closures Likely The closure of Ospraie Management's flagship hedge fund is likely to be the first of several such failures, as a slump in commodities and a spike in financial stocks catch out funds with hard-to-sell positions. |
Financial Advisor
December 2008
Eric Uhlfelder |
Where Are We Headed? This year will be remembered as one of the worst investors have ever known. Extreme caution is required before moving back into the markets in 2009. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Carlo Cottarelli & Jose Vinals |
Looking Ahead Countries must begin now to devise economic strategies to accompany the recovery. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010 |
Strategies for Capitalizing on Alternative Assets A high-net-worth financial adviser talks about how to hedge your bets. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2010
Tim Knepp |
Natural Resources: A Natural Fit To Your Client's Portfolio Natural resources are often viewed as a compelling alternative allocation and portfolio diversifier for stock and bond holdings. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
Eric Uhlfelder |
Managing the Future For those still willing to make some moves, commodity trading advisor programs (CTAs), also known as managed futures, can be an attractive alternative to equities. By their very nature, commodity funds excel during bouts of volatility. |
FDIC FYI
September 5, 2002 |
Corporate Earnings Growth Suggests Business Sector Recovery The recession that began in March 2001 has been termed a corporate sector recession because of pervasive weakness in the business sector. Recent earnings reports from companies in the S&P 500 index suggest that the trend of declining corporate profits may have run its course. |
Registered Rep.
August 16, 2010
Brad Zigler |
Commodity Funds or Commodity Exchange-traded Products? The tumult in the equities markets has forced a lot of investors and advisors to consider diversifying their portfolios with alternative asset classes. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2008
Helbling et al. |
Riding a Wave Soaring commodity prices -- especially those of oil, nickel, tin, corn, and wheat -- has brought a sea change to the commodities landscape. Trade policies should be adjusted for better efficiency. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2010
Ivan Martchev |
What's Next for the Market's Top Performers? The most cyclical sectors in the S&P 500 are doing great: The recovery continues. |
Financial Advisor
December 2005
Alan Lavine |
Playing Two Sides PIMCO's three-year-old StocksPlus Total Return Fund buys S&P 500 futures, then tries to beat the index with bonds. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn |
Hot Commodities Real assets are on a tear. Better yet, they offer great diversification and a hedge against inflation. The current trend probably has room to run, and there are other very real reasons to allocate a regular portion of clients' portfolios to commodities. |
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Eric L. Reiner |
The Road To Recovery How you can help clients profit from the economic recovery. |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2009
Jennifer Schonberger |
Expert Summit: How to Invest Right Now Top financial experts on their favorite sectors and companies. |
Financial Advisor
January 2009
Marla Brill |
Working The Bond Market Fund manager Andrew Stenwall says high-yield bonds are likely to outperform. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2010
Stacy Schultz |
An Exceptional Year Early cyclical sectors and sizzling-hot emerging markets led performance in 2009. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Angel Ubide |
Demystifying Hedge Funds In an effort to soothe worries about transparency and supervision, public authorities are trying to develop new approaches to meet the public's need for financial system stability and investor protection while enabling investors to enjoy the benefits that hedge funds bring to financial markets. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2006
Donald Jay Korn |
Hard Choices Exchange-traded funds and notes provide more options for financial planners who want exposure to commodities. |
Investment Advisor
January 2008
Jeff Joseph |
The Year in Hedge Funds In a year marked by high volatility in the financial markets, the 10 strategies tracked by the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index outperformed major global equity indexes and experienced lower volatility than the overall markets. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2007
Donald Jay Korn |
Different Strokes This summer's volatile markets proved that allocating funds among uncorrelated assets really does work. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
The New Hot Commodity With the advent of exchange-traded funds, you can find custom-made investments that allow you to participate in nearly any market you can imagine. |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2009
Ivan Martchev |
This Is What Works When Stocks Fail But will it continue to work in the future? There are reasons to believe that some of the trends that have worked over the past 10 years will keep working for some time. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2008
John Rosevear |
You Can Make Money in Any Market Somebody is making money. They've learned to use tools and strategies we haven't. ProShares have created families of short ETFs -- investments that go up when the indices they track go down. |
BusinessWeek
December 17, 2009
Lewis Braham |
The Case for Commodities They could be a smart inflation hedge in 2010. And some pros see a long-term bull market for oil, grain, and gold. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2005 |
Mutual Fund Monitor Commodities futures have unique diversification properties and, on average, perform well whenever stocks and bonds have done poorly. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Mara Der Hovanesian |
On the Sunny Side of the Street Is the economy overheating or heading for a nasty fall? Both fears have many investors heading for the exits. But many investment pros are sticking with stocks. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2005
Litman & Gregory |
Mutual Fund Monitor Here is a brief run-through of our defensive fat-pitch asset classes: Commodity futures... Foreign bonds... etc. |
Financial Advisor
November 2007
Jeff Schlegel |
New Twists On The Oldest Economy Formerly plodding agriculture is now running in the fast lane, but the run-up in index performances and in the valuations of certain agribusinesses might give investors pause despite the sector's seemingly positive long-term trends. |
Financial Advisor
February 2007
Matt Hougan |
Dancing The Contango The commodities market has investors singing the blues, but a new note leads some to follow the beat of a different drummer. Whatever happens with commodities in 2007, we know one thing for sure: Advisors will be watching. |
