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10 Questions For Your Private Banker - 09/05
09/01/2005
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Private equity real estate firms are becoming more
popular as investors seek asset classes that are not strongly correlated with
the equities markets and ones in which competition for assets is less cutthroat.
PERE firms seek to renovate properties or structure transactions in such a way
to obtain 20-plus percent returns, rather than more typical 10 to 20 percent
returns available from normal real estate vehicles. Should I consider this asset
class?
The “No” votes on the EU constitution have spurred a great deal of
private investor interest in principal-protected currency basket products, which
help diversify currency exposures and profit from the euro’s (and the dollar’s)
tribulations. Would this type of investment be useful to me in light of my own
exposures to the euro and the dollar?
Strong demand from Chinese
manufacturers pushed the price of copper to a record high of $3,340 per ton in
June. Supply constraints may support this price level for some time. Should I
have some exposure to copper, directly, or to copper mining companies in my
portfolio?
BLIPS, FLIPs and OPIS were abusive tax shelters peddled to
affluent clients by KPMG in the 1990s, according to the Justice Department. As
the accounting giant negotiates frantically to avoid a firm-ending Andersonian
indictment, its clients are scouring their old returns for evidence of offending
transactions. Do I have any?
, after a U.S. short-seller won the right to sue a
speech recognition software developer that issued upbeat financial statements
that masked a deteriorating business picture. What does this mean for my
business? For the firms in which I invest?
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