By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Often investors get caught by marketing like anyone else and become absolutely in love with a brand. Case in point is that they’ll take lower returns from a large, name brand fund over the higher returns of a lesser known, small fund. To be fair, the large name [...]
By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
This “Investment Perspective” comes straight from the rooms in banks that are filled with the proverbial bean counters known as underwriters that are making the lives of hard money lenders very easy and very profitable. It’s clear that the banks are running out of both good decisions and [...]
By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Today’s Idea comes from an offshoot of an article I wrote a while back called, “Euro’s Have Two Ways of Profiting in U.S. Dollar Investments” where I discussed US dollar investments as a long term hedge for investors holding Euros. I made a basic argument for the U.S. [...]
By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Today’s Idea is about an age old debate about debt vs. equity. It is interesting to think back a couple of years ago when there really weren’t that many debt funds offering up an alternative investment, in comparison to the amount of private equity funds, which was the [...]
By: Michael Facchini, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Wouldn’t it be nice if every time someone asked you to borrow $100, they gave you their iPOD to hold onto as collateral? I’m sure they would be much more compelled to actually pay you back as opposed to conveniently “forgetting” to do so. Seems like a simple [...]
By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Today’s idea comes from some of the recent announcements about how large corporations are using job cuts as an alternative to growth, and in essence keeping their bottom line in shape. With the economy in a recession, it’s that time again for large corporations to start slashing jobs [...]
By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Today’s Idea is just a quick thought about the current market schizophrenia. On July 12th I saw a headline that read “Oil Hits Record High on Supply Fears” “. If you were living in a cave and saw this headline you would probably think that there is a [...]
By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
I think investors and the financial sector as a whole need to become educated on the profitability of Asset Based Lenders and the hedge they represent. The lack of liquidity in the financial sector seems to be getting daily press and for every bank that tightens guidelines or [...]
By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Today’s idea is just a quick consideration of what I wrote last Friday about alternative investments in light of an announcement by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.(KKR), which gained fame by taking RJ Reynolds private two decades ago, will go public on the New York [...]
Do We Need to Change the Definition of an Alternative Investment?
With The Dow giving a clear signal yesterday that our troubles have not passed, yesterday’s traders should be becoming today’s alternative investment cheerleaders. I think we are finding that with so many economic factors being weighed so heavily by traders, daily betting on which way [...]
