Today, we bring you another installment of our “Summer of 1,000 posts” (more…)

This week’s sampling from our archives covers the topic of Institutional Investing…

Shipping as an alternative investment
Thought shipping was just a global growth play?  Apparently, it depends on how you measure it.

BCG Forecast: Institutions to seek “innovative products” such as HF and PE
A new report by the Boston Consulting Group explains why institutional investors have stuck with hedge funds and why alternative investments in general will play a key role going forward.

Report shows that some wounds recently suffered by wealth managers may have been self-inflicted
A recent report by CapGemini and Merrill Lynch show that wealth managers may have stopped listening to clients at exactly the wrong moment.

Alternative Viewpoints: When it comes to transparency, institutional investors are being treated as “second class citizens”
Guest contributor Steve Deutsch of Morningstar says that despite all the talk of “transparency”, the micro-economics of the institutional investment industry often prevent the message from getting through. More…