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"Canadians Continue to Take to Liquid Alternatives." Aston Hill Financial--a Canadian asset management firm focused on meeting the needs of its domestic clients.
Topics are
"PIMCO Touts Carry and Trend Across Asset Classes, "
"First Closed-End IPO Since November 2014 is Big Success"
"Neuberger Berman Launches Multi-Asset Income Fund"
& "Canadians Continue to Take to Liquid Alternatives."
Thanks, John. There is a short summary about this book, http://dailyalts.com/new-book-offers-guide-using-liquid-alternatives/
Hopefully, the short summary helps others.
Considering Smart Beta article from Wisdom Tree is helpful for understanding more about smart beta: http://www.wisdomtree.com/about/pdf/what-others-saying/WisdomTree-Considering-SmartBeta-Reprint-1697.pdf
Virtus has lanuched 3 alternative funds early this year, here is the link list: http://dailyalts.com/company/virtus/
Here is the Virtus alternative funds website: http://virtusalts.com/
the asset flows for the Long/Short Equity category (mutual funds, ETFs) is $417 million (as of 7/31/14) from morningstar August report. That is quite a lot asset flows.
ARLSX has 1.20% management fees and has 7.84% return rate since inception. …
Well, based on Gotham's prospectus, this fund is only available in an institutional share class, with a listed minimum investment of $250,000, a 2.00% management fee and a 3.2% expense ratio.
