The new strategies are designed to provide advisors and their clients with a broader range of investment options to help them address changing market and economic conditions.
The Dynamic Risk Advantage Strategy is a tactical asset allocation strategy designed to reduce risk exposure when higher-risk assets are in decline and increase risk exposure when the assets are trending positive. The Enhanced Real Return Strategy, which is proprietary to Curian, provides a means of helping investors protect their assets against the effects of inflation.
Advisor Partners Upgrades Portfolio Program
Advisor Partners, a provider of outsource investment solutions, is releasing Advisor Partners Managed Portfolio Program, a turnkey asset management solution for financial institutions and independent financial advisors.
The upgrade uses endowment-style investment models to provide broader multi-asset representation. It is designed to allow advisors and institutions to focus on relationship management and business development by outsourcing their existing wealth management offering.
Van Eck Offers Small-Cap Investments
Van Eck Global, headquartered in New York, is launching a Market Vectors Latin American Small-Cap Index ETF, an offering meant to take advantage of economic expansion in Latin America since 2005, which the company expects to continue. Van Eck believes that small-cap stocks in the region are well-positioned to take advantage of the local economic trends.
Van Eck also offers mutual funds, insurance trust funds, separate accounts and alternative investments.