real estate

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  New Hire Roundup: HighTower Expands Development Team

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2013

  This week in new hires, HighTower welcomed Thomas Brown and Frank Epinger to its development team. Citibank named Mark Mason private bank CEO and Jane Fraser CitiMortgage CEO.

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  Purchasing Pools: The Brazilian Remedy to Ease America’s Credit Crunch

  By Juliana Molinari de Almeida Santos Cunha, Attorney, Sao Paulo Bar Association  |  May 17, 2013

  The Brazilian economy and legal system may offer the American middle class a way out of its credit access problem via the Brazilian “Purchasing Pool System.”

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  REIT Returns Are on a Roll, but Some ETFs Lag

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  May 13, 2013

  ETFs that track REITs are doing well but aren't keeping pace with the markets as consistently as REIT indexes.

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  Low Interest Rates Wallop Retirees: EBRI

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 13, 2013

  The low-interest-rate environment “has an extremely large impact on failure rates” when it comes to meeting retirement goals, EBRI's research director says.

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  U.S. Recovers as the World Watches: Schroders

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 8, 2013

  U.S. investors are well acquainted with market uncertainty and the wobbly economic recovery, but they’ve got nothing on worried investors elsewhere in the world.

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  Baby Boomers Face New Retirement Realities

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  May 6, 2013

  Most Baby Boomers prefer peace of mind over wealth accumulation and are looking to reinvent themselves in retirement, according a Merrill Lynch study released Monday.

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  FINRA: BDs Have a Failure to Communicate on Nontraded REITs

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 6, 2013

  FINRA warned broker-dealers Friday that they were failing to properly communicate to investors the potential pitfalls of nontraded REITs.

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  Africa: Opportunity Beyond the S in BRICS

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 2, 2013

  Investors considering going a bit farther afield than EU countries, Japan and other developed markets might want to consider Africa—and not just South Africa.

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  Schwab’s Sonders: Middle America Is My Favorite Emerging Market

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 1, 2013

  "Someone asked me in a Q&A, 'What’s your favorite emerging market?’ and ‘Middle America’ was what came out of my mouth,” Sonders said at the FPA-New York annual summit.

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  Nontraded REITs: Friend or Foe?

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  April 29, 2013

  Nontraded REITs may be unsuitable for older investors because of their need for liquidity, but they have their defenders in today's booming real estate market.