Tag: Alternative investments

The majority of financial advisers are looking to alternative investments as a way to diversify their portfolios, believing that traditional stocks, bonds and cash do not provide adequate...

Sustainable Asset Management (SAM), a global provider of sustainability investing and the co-developer of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, has hired Neil Johnson to lead its North American...

Security Global Investors (SGI) has named Jerome Abernathy and David Beeman to its quantitative investment and development/management teams to help shape the firm's efforts in alternative products.

CUSO Financial Services (CFS), a full-service, broker/dealer and registered investment adviser, has launched the ActivePassive Portfolios on the CUSO Asset Management (CAM) platform.

Investment management company Bandon Capital Management, LLC, announced a new relationship with American Independent Securities Group, LLC (AISG), enabling AISG advisers to access Bandon’s flagship investment strategy.

INTECH Investment Management LLC has launched its first Enhanced Global Equity strategy. 

California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced a $1.4-billion settlement with three Wells Fargo affiliates to pay back investors, charities, and small businesses that purchased auction-rate securities...

A survey by Morningstar, Inc., and Barron's magazine found that despite questionable performance during the market downturn and hedge fund scandals, institutional investors and advisers still view alternative...

SunTrust Banks has added an FDIC-insured account as an investment option for its 401(k) clients.

Altegris named Ken McGuire as COO to oversee the growth and development of APM Funds, the company’s flagship line of alternative investment products.

The Dreyfus Corporation, part of BNY Mellon Asset Management, has introduced two new fund of funds: Dreyfus Satellite Alpha Fund and Dreyfus Diversified Global Fund.

A federal judge in New York has rebuffed efforts by two credit rating agencies to seek constitutional free speech protection for their evaluations of securities instruments.

Ameriprise Financial has introduced Active Diversified Alternatives Portfolios, a series of professionally managed portfolios designed for long-term investors seeking increased diversification and risk management.

Commonwealth Financial Network announced the addition of three portfolios with alternative asset classes to its lineup of in-house managed portfolios.

47 Degrees North Capital Management announced the launch of the 47 Degrees North Innovation Fund.

Spyker Consulting, Inc., an international bullion brokerage firm, said it offers individual retirement account (IRA) services for qualified investors seeking to have gold, silver, platinum, or palladium in...

Apparently the softening economy is also weighing on the value of major league baseball teams.

Curian Capital, LLC, has expanded its Custom Style Portfolios with the addition of an alternatives asset class.

Recordkeeper ExpertPlan has partnered with Riverton, Utah-based American Pension Services, Inc., to support self-directed retirement plans, including IRAs.