Tag: Alternative investments

There’s been an uptick in global demand for diversification and alpha generation, according to the 2012 Global Survey on Alternative Investing by Russell Investments.

The global financial services firm Wilshire Associates rolled out two offerings, one with exposure to liquid alternatives and a lower-cost product for smaller client accounts.

 Neuberger Berman Group LLC launched the Neuberger Berman Absolute Return Multi-Manager Fund with multiple sub-advisers on Monday.   

More than three-fourths of Americans familiar with retirement accounts are interested in investing their individual retirement accounts (IRAs) in alternative assets.

Private equity, hedge funds and real estate will drive a combined 20% of all manager search activity in the U.S. 

J.P. Morgan Asset Management enhanced its pooled Stable Asset Income Fund (SAIF).  

Vanguard launched the Vanguard Target Retirement 2060 Fund. 

Long-term mutual funds had a second consecutive month of net redemptions with outflows of $9.8 billion in December 2011. 

Advisers’ interest in alternative investments is on the rise, and smaller, boutique asset managers may meet the criteria advisers want more than larger, “brand name” firms.

Erin Spalsbury joins J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Liability Driven Investment (LDI) Solutions group.  

J.P. Morgan Asset Management–Global Real Assets hired Rob Johnson as head of global business development for China real estate.  

Alternative Investment Group has appointed Joel Gantcher as managing director, head of manager research, and Samuel Sussman as managing director, head of investment strategy. 

Towers Watson believes that stable value investors should be aware of a few shifts brought on by a combination of an underlying structural change and recent economic stress.  

Russell Investments has promoted senior consultant Martin Jaugietis to the newly created role of director, head of LDI solutions, Americas Institutional.

Sixty-three percent of investment managers surveyed by SEI at its annual CFO Forum for Alternative Investment Managers are optimistic about their firm’s prospects over the next three years. 

The Greenwich Roundtable released a white paper discussing how investors can manage complexity of alternative investments to improve their returns.

A report from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College suggests that for corporate pension plans, the potential diversification benefits from investing in alternative investments may be...

Gold Bullion International (GBI) and The Kingdom Trust Company are collaborating on a physical precious metal alternative investment offering for financial advisers and investors.  

Fidelity Investments has expanded its emerging markets fund offering with the Fidelity Total Emerging Markets Fund and Fidelity Emerging Markets Discovery Fund.

American Century Investments is rolling out three alternative portfolios: Core Equity Plus, Disciplined Growth Plus, and Market Neutral Value.