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Author: Aaron

  • DTCC Forms Alternative Investment Products Advisory Committee

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    Sixteen Industry Representatives Team with DTCC to Explore Standard Platform for Processing, Settling Trades of Alternative Investment Products The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced the formation of an industry advisory committee on alternative investment products to develop an automated, centralized and streamlined approach to the processing of these instruments. Comprising a cross-section…

  • Playing With Fire

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    Forget the new zillionaires. There are many good reasons to resist playing with fire in the China craze. When the ducks are quacking, the saying goes, Wall Street feeds them, and right now we ducks are quacking for a steady diet of China-related investment opportunities. If China’s economic miracle ends the way many do (e.g.,…

  • Investment Biker

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    Jim Rogers is the author of Investment Biker (Random House 1994), Adventure Capitalist (Random House 2003) and Hot Commodities (Random House 2005). Born in 1942, Jim Rogers had his first job at age five, picking up bottles at baseball games. Winning a scholarship to Yale, Rogers was coxswain. Upon graduation, he attended Balliol College at…

  • Time for you to diversify

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    Asset managers warn against expecting unit trust funds that delivered outstanding performance in previous quarters to continue producing inflation-beating returns in future. Performance results across the different unit trust categories are again generally good this quarter, and there are even positive returns among offshore funds that had been showing losses for many a quarter. Over…

  • Alternative investments may help portfolio

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    Investing doesn’t just have to be about stocks and bonds. There are many investments that may be a good fit for your portfolio. While some alternative investments can enhance a portfolio, they should probably be a modest percentage of your overall financial plan. Examples of alternative investments include real estate, managed futures, private equity, along…

  • Demystifying hedge funds & investment plans

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    Hedge funds are pooled investment vehicles, which are commonly set up as limited partnerships in which the manager acts as the general partner while the investors act as the limited partners. In order to mitigate a particular type of risk, a money manager employs a particular risk management or hedging technique. For example, the market…

  • Before rushing into Reits …

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    Investors shouldn’t let enticing payouts blind them to property trusts’ risks Reits or Real Estate Investment Trusts are now the flavour in Singapore and the region. Governments are offering tax incentives for Reits and there is talk of several billion-dollar Reits being floated in Singapore and other regional markets, including Hong Kong. Reits invest in…

  • Platinum 20-Bagger Pitches to The Yankees

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    NEW YORK – There are not too many twenty-baggers to go around in any sort of market, but one of them is preparing to list on the American Stock Exchange to better align itself with its major stockholders. London listed Southern African Resources [AIM:SFU] is undergoing a rebranding that will, without being mutually exclusive, broaden…

  • Cash-rich hedge funds shake up the reinsurance industry

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    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Under increasing pressure to extend a string of huge returns for their super-wealthy clients, several top hedge funds are making forays into what may seem an unlikely new business for high-flying investors: reinsurance. And their entry into a market once dominated by a few old-guard insurance specialists has raised hackles among…