They are slipping huge checks under the doors of dozens of alternative investment houses.
With prices now falling, the attraction of the metal as an alternative investment has waned.
Financial advisors are recommending more alternative investment strategies in an effort to find yield.
When the country was awash with 1980s profits, art offered an alternative investment to the Nikkei.
The business was founded by entrepreneur Karl Watkin and listed on London's Alternative Investment Market in 2004.
Philipp was a high-ranking executive at Deutsche Bank before leaving in 2000 to set up his own alternative investment firm.
The simple facts about what they do can help demystify these alternative investment vehicles for investors and savers.
Are the general partners of alternative investment funds subject to a conflict of interest in valuing partnership assets?
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Typically investors in private equity funds and other alternative investment vehicles expect a full payback within ten years.
Mandell started Sky Capital Holdings in 2001, taking it public on the London Alternative Investment Market in July 2002.
The government produced an expert from the London Stock Exchange, where Sky Capital traded on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
Therefore, any portfolio that includes more of this kind of alternative investment correspondingly increases the risk of the whole portfolio.
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That is a premium of 161% over the Tuesday closing price of the company, listed on the Alternative Investment Market.
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In 2002, Wilpon and Katz recruited Stamos to become, in essence, an alternative investment adviser for part of their fortunes.
Those factors could be weighing down Blackstone and Fortress and could potentially damage the capital-raising plans of other alternative investment firms.
There is good news for investors, with the complete abolition of stamp duty on shares traded on the Alternative Investment Market.
Publicly traded alternative investment and capital management firm (formerly a private equity shop) Blackstone Group (BX) has been leading the charge.
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In light of this heightened focus, alternative investment funds and their managers have had to adapt to the new world around them.
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Other questions focused on non-British passports held by British passport holders, shares on the Alternative Investment Market, and policing in Northern Ireland.
The institutional division of Warren Financial Service, WFS Funds, provides alternative investment strategies for high net-worth investors, foundations, endowments, and family offices.
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Many firms have also entered the alternative investment spaces, either by developing their own products or by partnering with hedge fund providers.
On this measure, then, American shares in the aggregate are paying a lower rate of return than a perfectly safe alternative investment.
The most controversial part of the testimony went to how Sky Capital Holdings stock was traded on the London Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
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Does the pension rely upon the general partners of alternative investment funds to estimate the value of the partnership investments in which invests?
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But ETNs have their benefits, including tax efficiency and easy access to alternative investment strategies and the more obscure parts of the market.
LSE's own business plan sees its Alternative Investment Market luring mid-sized companies from continental Europe with the promise of low costs and deep liquidity.
Oryx intends to list on 13 June as part of its takeover by Petra Diamonds, a mining group listed on the Alternative Investment Market.
LSE's junior Alternative Investment Market, because of rules on the main market against listing companies that sold short or did not have diversified investments.
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But when it comes to fund managers, the European Union, via its Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive, is planning to stick its oar in.
Where several alternative investment strategies were equally plausible, the court should presume that the funds would have been used in the most profitable of these.
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