Real Estate
Learn how real estate investing can diversify portfolio risk and enhance portfolio performance, along with the latest news and developments in this most popular alternative investment.
Aging boomers drive real estate trends
By Danielle AndrusGiffels-Webster Engineers revealed its annual list of top five real estate and development trends. According to GWE, two industries are intrinsically linked to the aging...
February 01, 2009
Taking Advantage of a Down EconomyDifficult economic times can provide an excellent opportunity for affluent clients to make strategic moves that can help reduce taxes and more efficiently transfer assets...
January 31, 2009
Marketing to affluent seniors (part 1)According to the Wall Street Journal, there are 2.7 million people in the United States with a net worth of $1 million or more, part of a 8.7 million worldwide population of millionaires. Americans with investment assets of more than $30 million top
January 04, 2009
Humpty's WoesHaving gotten through 2008 with portfolios battered and confidence shattered, I guess we all pretty much know how Queen Elizabeth felt when she described 1992 as an "annus horribilis" for her and the other royals.
January 01, 2009
Insurers Brace For Commercial Mortgage TurmoilThe top 25 U.S. life insurers held about $116 billion in commercial mortgage-backed securities in 2007, and those securities accounted for 3.9% of the insurers' $3 trillion in 2007 total net admitted assets
January 01, 2009
Insurers Brace For Commercial Mortgage TurmoilThe top 25 U.S. life insurers held about $116 billion in commercial mortgage-backed securities in 2007, and those securities accounted for 3.9% of the insurers' $3 trillion in 2007 total net admitted assets
January 01, 2009
Saving Along Ethnic LinesI was in Atlanta for a couple of days to attend Charles Schwab's INSIGHT 08 conference. Dorothy A. Brown's sojourn in the South has been...
January 01, 2009
Tracking Rubles, Real EstateRydex Investments added the Russian ruble (XRU) to its lineup of CurrencyShares. The ruble is the official currency of the Russian Federation (Russia) and related...