(Bloomberg) The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension plan, should reduce its assumed return rate to 7 percent from 7.5 percent over the next three years amid long-term projections for slow growth and unfavorable demographics, according to […]

(Harvest) The CCM Alternative Income Fund (CCMNX) had a strong month in November despite downward pressure in the bond market. Check out our November recap attached here, and also please click on the adjacent button to join our private network […]

(Citywire) Hedge funds need to act proactively and start outsourcing operations in order to survive in a world of intense competition and sharp scrutiny… To read this article:

(Reuters) Prominent technology investor Chris Connor is shutting down his hedge fund less than one year after launching it and will be joining Citadel, one of the industry’s biggest players… Connor launched Ardmore Global Investors, which concentrated on picking global […]

(Harvest) Earlier this month, I wrote that tax-free closed-end bond funds were ripe for the picking , and this is still the case today. In my income-driven newsletter Peak Income , we currently have three open recommendations yielding a fat, […]

(New York Post) All Lynn Tilton wants for Christmas is a little lump of coal in the stocking of the Securities and Exchange Commission.The so-called Diva of Distressed Debt has tried again to persuade a judge that the SEC’s fraud […]

(FinAlternatives) Investment advisors consider managed futures a critical component of client portfolios, according to a new survey commissioned by alternative investment manager Altegris Advisors, and better than two in five plan on increasing their current allocation next year. To read […]

(Bloomberg) This was the year to ridicule hedge funds. Pension funds, politicians, Warren Buffett, even hedge fund managers themselves — they all had something to say about the disappointing performance, high fees and market saturation. Well-known managers from Ray Dalio […]

(Harvest)There is the foundational view that increased uncertainty will and should lead to changes in our economic behavior. There should be an increased desire for caution. Investments in the future should be smaller or deferred. There should be an increase […]

(Preqin) Competition in accessing top fund managers could push institutional investors towards initiating more relationships with first-time managers. In Preqin Special Report: Making the Case for First-Time Funds, 54% of the 400 institutional investors surveyed in June 2016 stated that […]

(Opalesque) November 2016 was one of the most eventful months in recent memory, highlighted by the dramatic conclusion of the U.S. presidential election. Equities answered an overnight selloff in the futures markets with a sharp and sustained rally to new […]

(Harvest) THE US DOLLAR HAS SOARED ON THE FOREX MARKET in a manner we’ve not seen in a very, very long while. The reason, of course, is that the Fed has chosen not only to raise the o/n Fed funds […]