Investment Officers
Should You Buy Alibaba Now? Mega IPOs are Mega Laggards a Year Later, Analysis Shows
If history is any guide, investors who missed out on getting a slice of Alibaba's massive initial public offering may want to think twice about jumping into the stock once it hits the New York Stock ...
Détente & Other Good Intentions
How many of us will be proven wrong by year end? How many right? In a business where we are often judged—fairly or not—on an annual or even quarterly basis, the act of making predictions can be ...
Hedge Funds Shut Out Nonprofits in FHA Sale of Distressed Loans
The U.S. Federal Housing Administration started selling distressed loans in 2012 to help communities hit hard by foreclosures while also reducing losses to its taxpayer-backed insurance fund. Two ...
Loeb’s Third Point Re Shares Challenged While Hedge Fund Thrives
Dan Loeb's foray into the reinsurance industry is proving to be more volatile for investors than his hedge-fund returns. Third Point Reinsurance Ltd., a Bermuda-based firm that relies on the ...
European Insurers Balk About New Risk Rules
Insurers in Europe, which manage about 8.5 trillion euros ($11.2 trillion) of client money, say their role as long-term investors may be hurt by new regulation. Planned new risk-based rules for ...
Kemper Strategy: An Alternative Approach to Private Equity Investing
Co-investing has become one of the most discussed issues between private equity funds, also known as general partners (GPs), and their investors, commonly referred to as limited partners (LPs). For ...
Will Investors Give QBE’s CEO Enough Time to Finish His Revamp?
QBE Insurance Group Ltd.'s John Neal is shoring up the insurer's balance sheet by selling shares and assets. He still has work to do convincing bond investors that business is improving after three ...
Doing Well and Doing Good: Zurich Insurance Group Commits to Invest up to $2B in Green Bonds
You have a choice between two investment-grade bonds, both yielding a return commensurate with risk. One bond provides funding to projects that help avoid over 450,000 tons of CO2 emissions ...