Monthly Stock Market Trends – February 2010

This is monthly chart for the S&P 500 showing 20 years of performance. Since this index is the one used by professional traders, it is important to understand how it is performing. This chart is also excellent at defining the longer-term trends for the market. The bull market of the last five years broke down … Read more

Investors Utilized 1031 Exchanges

Apartment Investors Utilized 1031 Exchanges Apartment Investors Utilized 1031 Exchanges It has been recently reported that the US apartment market may have reached bottom and be poised for a rebound. Apartment vacancy rates have stopped rising and rents even showed a modest increase in the first quarter. As life is pumped back into this market, … Read more

Asia experiences wave of hedge fund startups, “Which is exactly what we saw post the Asian crisis?”

Peter Douglas, principal of GFIA, a Singapore-based consulting firm, said that the rebound of Asian hedge funds as seen by these startups, is similar to the developments post the last Asian crisis: “A lot of the great names of the Asian hedge fund industry were actually set up around the end of the Asian crisis. … Read more