"A lot of homeowners don't qualify for a HELOC but would benefit from releasing some of their home equity wealth to solve some financial problems or to invest in themselves or their businesses," said Eoin Matthews, co-founder and chief business officer at Point, a home equity alternative based in Silicon Valley.
Salomon: So we're expecting a continued revaluation of the private equity alternative asset manager subsector as the space matures and liquidity improves.
This encompasses not just the S&P 500 Index, but everything under the sun: Global equity, Asia ex-Japan, emerging market equity, U.S. mid-cap equity, EAFE equity, U.S. large-cap equity, alternative hard assets, cash, real estate, infrastructure, U.S. fixed income, hedge funds and gold.
So, 70% of the portfolio is in absolute return, real assets, private equity, alternatives — broadly defined.
"We are still looking at a sale as well as an equity infusion as alternatives," he said, though he confirmed that Finova recently hired Jay Alix & Associates, a firm that specializes in restructurings.
Tony Tamer is Founder and Co-CEO of HIG Capital LLC, an $18 billion global private equity and alternative assets investment firm, in Miami.
Empirical research has uncovered an equity-efficiency trade-off in alternative fiscal consolidation strategies.
To make a fairer comparison between the two, The Economist has calculated an alternative equity index, covering the same 14 countries, with the same weights, as JPMorgan's bond index.
Council Post: Self-Directed IRAs Are Risky, But For Whom? Self-Directed IRAs Are Risky, But For Whom? CEO of Self-Directed Investor Society, a private association of affluent investors in real estate, private equity and alternative assets.
Joan Solotar is a Senior Managing Director, Head of the External Relations & Strategy Group, and a member of both the Executive and Management Committees at Blackstone, the global private equity and alternative asset management firm.
