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Hands-on Investor is the FT Wealth Weekend column where the FT gets its hands dirty. It provides detailed reviews of new products for wealthy investors.
Trust is the word for inheritance riches
Using a legal structure to transfer family fortune may help shape outcomes by imposing guardrails and laying down some rules of the road
Back to the roots with a high-risk hedge fund
A select group of investors returns to the high-rolling style of the past. They purposely seek out the riskiest funds, aware of the bigger risks they take on, as they chase higher returns
Healer doles out radical medicine to sick business
Kevin Parker, the head of Deutsche Asset Management, is using alternative investments, including private equity and hedge funds, to help revitalise the asset manager which had suffered outflows in the three previous years
Overview: A refuge from dollar’s decline
As the dollar falls, investors in ETFs are discovering a variety of ways to profit betting against the greenback
The long and the short of it
Trying to improve on the clunky name, some firms have tried marketing them as an “edge strategy”, “flex strategy” or “short extension” funds.
Dangers that lurk in 401(k)s
The average American with a 401(k) retirement savings account saw it grow by 8.7% a year in the seven years to 2006. That information makes it sound as if all may be well with 401(k) retirement plans
Holiday route to art know-how
If investing in art is your main interest, lots of organisations will teach you how to do it. Collectors, and those who aspire to own art, can now take intensive courses in art history and investment on location
Tweaks in indices that boost gains
Enhanced indexing is not automatically a better way to invest. Making portfolio adjustments pushes up fund expenses by as much as seven times the cheapest index funds. So these strategies must generate alpha that more than covers this additional cost
Alternatives to minimum tax
The federal alternative minimum tax (AMT) is an additional tax that some wealthy investors must pay on top of income tax. There are ways round the levy on the ultra-rich
How to allocate your assets
Portfolio management is getting more sophisticated. How far asset allocation has developed can be seen from the composition of modern indexes.









