Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Highly correlated asset classes are just one thing keeping institutional investors on their toes, a new survey has found.

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College came out with a dismal status report of the 401(k) plan.

The chief investment officer at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System spoke to Bloomberg TV on Wednesday. Joe Dear, Calpers’ CIO, says meeting their target return this year will be tough. Over the long-term, Dear said in the Bloomberg story, “Calpers chief says 7.75 percent return (is) tough to meet,” the returns of the largest

The market’s volatility has been unsettling, causing investors to seek diversification with alternative investments — so-called because they are designed to provide a counterweight to traditional investments like stocks, bonds and property. Commodities such as gold and silver, which have taken off in price in the last year, are examples of alternative investments. InvestmentNews surveyed

Alternative investments are all the rage among heavyweight investors. U.S. pension funds are boosting their allocations to hedge funds, according to a recent article on ai-CIO.com, a website that tracks news of interest to chief investment officers of pension funds, endowments and foundations. These guys are the so-called “smart money.” Individual investors can learn a

Hedge funds are so 2000s. The exclusive investments of the rich and richer may be on their way out; in their place institutional investors and investment advisors are buying alternative mutual funds and ETFs. A survey by the investment research company Morningstar, and Barron’s, the investment magazine, found that the liquidity and transparency of mutual