Investment Consulting

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  Top Portfolio Products: Women Hedge Fund Managers Provide More Alpha, Report Says

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  January 11, 2013

  Women managing hedge funds provide higher returns, a Rothstein Kass report found. Also, Security Benefit Corp introduced a next-generation fixed annuity.

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  Why Risk Questionnaires Misread Your Clients

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  August 16, 2012

  Garbage in, garbage out, the saying goes.

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  Portfolio Optimization With Collectible Art: Portfolio Fix

  By Ed McCarthy, CFP  |  August 7, 2011

  Art can reduce portfolio risk without substantially reducing returns

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  Webinar on Demand: Using Volatility as an Asset Class

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  January 28, 2011

  Access the Webinar to hear Cliff Stanton and Bill Luby discuss this portfolio strategy.

• Illusionist

  By Staff Writer  |  February 1, 2008

  One of the banes of modern investment manage- ment is the existence of closet indexers--money managers who are ostensibly active managers but who in fact...

• Judgment Day

  By Staff Writer  |  September 1, 2007

  In the Journal of Investment Consulting (Winter 2005-06) and in a series of articles in Investment Advisor (September 2005, February 2006, and March 2006), we...

• Watson Wyatt Sees No Shortage of Capacity Worry

  By Staff Writer  |  March 29, 2005

  LONDON (HedgeWorld.com)--Pension fund trustees wanting to invest in a fund of funds may want to consider the full effect of their asset allocation decision. According to a paper published by Watson Wyatt LLP Investment Consulting on the topic of capacity, pension funds and other institutional investors may find themselves competing...