alternative investment

The appeal of reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) as an alternative asset class continues to grow among multi-asset fund managers. These funds provide diversified ways to invest across multiple asset classes, and reinsurance is increasingly popular due to its low-correlation.

Five years on from one of the largest financial firm failures ever, the bankruptcy and collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers, many global financial assets have struggled to provide attractive returns as the world’s economies struggled to recover, with some being hit by multiple recessions.

Pension Corporation are one of the larger firms which was established to take on assets and liabilities from pension funds and manage those through to the end of a pensions lifespan. As a result they take on significant assets from pension funds which need to be invested in a prudent manner to ensure pension liabilities […]

It seems that you can’t go a week without seeing a mention of catastrophe bonds or insurance-linked securities in a main-stream business newspaper these days. This is testament to the growing profile of the market and the increasing interest in the asset class from both sophisticated institutional investors and now some savvy retail investors too.

Hedge Fund Alert, one of the leading publications covering the hedge fund investment industry, have published an interesting article which discusses the results of their annual industry outlook survey. The article says that the consensus among 20 participants in their survey was that large institutional investors, such as pension funds, endowments and insurers, are becoming […]

Government bonds, including U.S. treasuries, are likely to offer unexciting but relatively predictable returns during the current financial crisis, according to this article on FTAdviser. There is little chance of a major rally in these government securities but they are also considered relatively safe in the current financial market climate. However alternatives exist which can […]

The world of alternative investments encompasses many different asset classes and types of investment that are said to help diversify investment portfolios by offering opportunities which are less correlated with traditional types of assets. However some are beginning to say that institutional investors are in danger of over-allocating themselves to alternatives which are perhaps not […]