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Is It The Right Time To Include Gold and Silver Positions In Your Portfolio?
You can not help but notice the impressive rally that gold and silver have been on in June and for most of 2016 so far. The safe haven metals have continued to enjoy widespread gains across currency markets. Investors have been hunting for safe haven hideaways as...
Tail Risk Funds Making the Most Sense in Years
For anyone who was on vacation and missed the market updates during the last week, volatility is back with a vengeance. Thanks to the pro-leave Brexit vote, the world’s financial markets have been upended once again. U.S. stock markets saw over 600 point drops...
Hedge Funds and Investors Take Positions on Brexit Outcome and Aftermath
After hedge fund managers experienced the most disappointing first quarter returns since the financial crisis erupted, they have sensed a new opportunity. This surrounds the vote today of Britons deciding whether to leave the European Union or remain in an institution...
Changes Happening In the Hedge Fund Industry
Challenging days have come to the hedge fund industry. When times were good, investors of the exclusive club-like vehicles were satisfied. Over the last few years though, members in these investments have been less than pleased. Hedge funds underperformed a bullish...
Rare Coins Offer Numerous Benefits to Your Portfolio
Rare coins are an interesting choice to help diversify your portfolio. These should not be confused with gold or silver bullion holdings as they are not the same. For six good reasons, rare coins provide you with better protection than most any asset class on the...
Nasdaq Private Market Reducing the Illiquidity Risk of Startups
One of the great challenges of investing in startups has always been the unknown time commitment. In most cases, the only way to exit the initial investment in the new venture required waiting until the company eventually went public in an IPO. The problem with this...
Palladium Versus Gold Ratio Sounding Warning Alarms for Economy
Sophisticated investors are familiar with the various components of the precious metals complex gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. Palladium is generally the precious metal type that you hear and know least about these days. Understanding palladium is more...
Infrastructure, Private Equity and Debt Becoming Institutional Investor Favorites
The report released recently by Prequin shows how institutional investors are increasing their allocations to alternative assets and intend to continue increasing allocations in the future also. Infrastructure, Private Equity and Debt come out as being institutional...
The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall: Hedge Funds Get Off to a Poor Start to The Year
Hedge Funds have not had a great start to this year, along similar lines to more traditional assets like stocks. Global stock markets have felt the jitters from a faster than expected slowdown in China and fears of interest rate hikes happening at too Hedge fund size...
Startups Back on the Menu?
In theory, the recent rebound in equity markets—especially in technology-related shares, which were major laggards as the year unfolded—should be great news for young companies. As discussed previously (see here and here), valuations, activity and interest in private...
More from Central Banks Could Be Less
Last Thursday, the European Central Bank announced its latest stimulus measures, which many observers characterized as a quantitative easing, or QE, “bazooka.” The initiative was comprised of several components: four rounds of targeted long-term...
Is This the Right Time to Get Involved in Distressed Debt?
Hedge Funds that trade in distressed debt usually have their best years when there is an increase in the corporate bankruptcy rate. When there is an economic downturn, usually there are also more companies in distress. This is when Distressed Debt Hedge Funds take...
Reminder: Watch Out for the “Pain Trades”
Sometimes the reasons for betting on or against a certain investment seem compelling. Not only do various rationales appear supportive when viewing things from the bottom up, they are often confirmed by a top-down perspective. And yet, it is not unusual for these...
Commercial Real Estate Showing Signs of Weakness
Commercial Real Estate has had an incredible run since its financial crisis lows in 2009. This sector outpaced the broader residential S&P Case-Shiller Index and has reached levels that have surpassed the pre-crisis highs. Commercial real estate (CRE) includes...
More Signs of Better Days Ahead for Hedge Funds?
So far, 2016 has unfolded in a way that many active investment managers were hoping for. Market volatility has been increasing, affording more opportunities to buy and sell securities at attractive levels. Share prices have stopped moving higher in a relatively...
Commodities Bucking Bear Trend: Some Metals Outperforming Most Assets
A look at returns of best performing metals Precious and Industrial metals alike have been in a continued decline for various years now. Excess supply created by the massive rally in commodity prices that took place after the 2008 crisis. A weakened demand since the...
The Right Time for Value?
It is a key theme of “Good Idea, Bad Investment?“: just because a stock looks like a bargain, that doesn’t mean it is worth buying. A variety of often unexpected developments can influence its price, including macroeconomic trends; competitive,...
