Topic: Lew Altfest

Better Off in Corporate Bonds

Many professional money managers recommend that nervous investors ease their way back into the markets through investment grade corporate bonds. Lew Altfest, a financial planner in New York City, has been moving clients out of bond mutual funds and into individual bonds ...

Better Off in Bonds

Many professional money managers recommend that nervous investors ease their way back into the markets through investment grade corporate bonds. Lew Altfest, a financial planner in New York City, has been moving clients out of bond mutual funds and into individual bonds ...

Does Hedging Make You A Chicken?

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the September 2007 issue of Registered Rep. magazine. The Merc contracts track ten metropolitan markets -- Boston, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, D. C . Real ...

Why Hedge Funds?

Hedge funds notched an average 8.03% return for the year--better than the 4.9% returned by the S&P 500 index and better than the -0.61% logged by the Dow Jones industrial average, according to data complied by Hennessee Group ...