For decades, some university endowments, pension funds and other big investors have put part of their money to work in the woods. They've bought large tracts of timberland, viewing them as an asset class separate from stocks, bonds and other forms of real... Asset allocation - Diversification - Investing - Mutual fund - Business

For decades, some university endowments, pension funds and other big investors have put part of their money to work in the woods. They've bought large tracts of timberland, viewing them as an asset class separate from stocks, bonds and other forms of real... Asset allocation - Diversification (finance) - Mutual fund - Investing - Business

Via Pension Pulse. Michael Azlen, chief executive of Frontier Capital Management, wrote an op-ed piece for the FT, Everyone can learn from US endowments : The US endowments of Harvard and Yale have been leaders in diversified multi-asset class investing for more than two decades. Through this approach to investing and their exposure to alternative asset classes, prior to 2008 they had ...

AS with investing in any asset class you should do your homework before jumping in.

Barring a last-minute miracle, the broad U.S. stock market will end its worst decade in history this week, underperforming almost every other asset class including most foreign stock markets, U.S. bonds, gold, oil, other commodities and even real estate. U.S.... Stock market - United States Treasury security - Business - Stocks and Bonds - Investing