alternative
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And so offering good alternatives to these things is absolutely necessary.
Ares and other large, publicly traded alternative asset managers, which typically back software companies, also have seen their share prices fall sharply in recent days.
“Together, these indexes provide a data-driven view of what evergreen funds deliver relative to public market alternatives and to one another,” the firms said in a report describing the new benchmarks.
From Barron's
It is almost with perfect timing that the latest fund-manager survey shows that the big-money crowd running the world’s leading investment institutions has almost no interest in owning bonds — the generally safer alternative to stocks.
From MarketWatch
They conclude: "These findings provide supportive evidence for continued investment in HEMS, particularly for severely injured patients, though comparative studies with alternative care pathways are needed to establish causal effectiveness."
From Science Daily
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