In volatile markets, private capital has proven king as investors seek refuge from rising inflation in asset classes that offer higher yields than equities while providing desirable portfolio diversification.
GAM Investments and Sun Hung Kai & Co, a Hong Kong-based alternative investment firm, are pleased to announce a new strategic alliance.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) have announced a new automated liquidity management tool (“LMT”) for traditional and alternative funds, which is designed to allow asset managers to supervise multiple fund liquidity scenarios based on investor flows in a fully digital, customisable and controlled environment.
Research firm focused on Alternative UCITS funds, Kepler Absolute Hedge, has published its Market Intelligence Report for Q1 2024. The report is designed to give Absolute Hedge’s readership base of professional allocators and UCITS fund managers a holistic view of the latest trends in the Alternative UCITS universe.
New research from Carne Group reveals fund managers expect alternative asset classes to see the biggest increase in fund raising in 2024.
DWS has announced the latest development in its strategic growth push in Alternative Credit with the creation of a new Capital Solutions business unit and the appointment of Vlado Spasov as Head of Capital Solutions, effective immediately.
Inflation, market volatility, and lower than expected investment returns challenged institutional investors in the US throughout 2022 and early 2023, yet investors remain optimistic, according to Cerulli Associates.
Major pension funds in Asia have been diversifying further into alternatives, driven by the need to deliver solid returns and combat inflationary pressures as they face a looming underfunding crisis, according to Cerulli Associates’ newly released report, Asian Retirement Markets 2023: Building Security Against Uncertainty.
Alternative assets funds under are predicted to reach as much as USD25.3 trillion worldwide by 2027 representing a compound annual growth rate of 7 per cent since 2018, according to figures from PwC.
Alternatives managers are exceptionally focused on gathering capital from retail advisors yet are missing an important and underserved client group—self-directed investors, according to Cerulli Associates, which believes that there is opportunity for asset managers that have the necessary scale in place to reach these self-directed investors.
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