{"id":48667,"date":"2015-06-10T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48667"},"modified":"2015-06-10T08:53:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:53:39","slug":"majority-of-advisors-plan-to-continue-recommending-alternative-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2015\/majority-of-advisors-plan-to-continue-recommending-alternative-investments.html","title":{"rendered":"Majority Of Advisors Plan To Continue Recommending Alternative Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(DailyAlts.com)<\/strong> Can alternative investments help advisors build more robust portfolios for their clients, or are they just hype? That\u2019s the subject tackled by a study conducted by Pershing and Beacon Strategies, with the results compiled into a new white paper called Help or Hype: Advisor Perceptions of Alternative Investments. The study was released on June 4 at Pershing\u2019s INSITE 2015 conference, and involved interviewing 1,200 advisors, broker-dealers, RIAs, and alternative investment managers. Its major findings include:<\/p>\n<p>    The majority of advisors plan to continue recommending alternative investments over the next year, even as alternatives have underperformed since the Financial Crisis; 73% of advisors surveyed said their clients had at least one type of alternative investment in their portfolios; 70% said they plan to maintain their current alternatives allocation recommendations over the next year; and more than half said they think clients should allocate between 6% and 15% of their portfolios to alternatives. <\/p>\n<p>To read the entire article and white paper go to <strong>www.dailyalts.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(DailyAlts.com) Can alternative investments help advisors build more robust portfolios for their clients, or are they just hype? That\u2019s the subject tackled by a study conducted by Pershing and Beacon Strategies, with the results compiled into a new white paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48668,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48667\/revisions\/48668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}