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  • Alternative investments may help portfolio

    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

    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 …

    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

    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

    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…

  • Bullion Tame as Oil-Gold Ratio Hits 3-Decade High

    NEW YORK – The ratio of oil-to-gold prices spiked to a 29-year peak in March reflecting the persistent divergence in the fortunes of the two resources. The ratio has been steadily ascending since September 2003 with only a brief interruption last November, and reached an all-time daily high of 0.135 on 4 April when oil…

  • Investing: A Tokyo stock hop

    Just a few years ago, more than 60 percent of the 1,500 shares listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange were trading below their book value, with some shares trading below what all of the company’s cash reserves were worth. That is changing fast. Since early February the shares of a fistful of formerly sleepy Japanese…

  • Self-storage REITs ride economic boom

    NEW YORK – You can’t always take it with you, and when you can’t you put it in storage. At least that’s what investors are betting as they put cash into self-storage real estate investment trusts. “So far this year, they’ve significantly outperformed,” said Tom Bohjalian, vice president of New York based Cohen & Steers…

  • Hot Commodity

    LONDON – No one comes to this fascinating city for the food. But many, like San Diego-based Sempra Energy, come for the money that can be made here. While many back home associate Sempra with its San Diego Gas & Electric subsidiary, or perhaps with Southern California Gas Co., another wholly owned utility, commodity trading…

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