Alternatives

Alternatives | 19 Jul 16

Esma, the European financial regulator, has published its advice on 12 jurisdictions seeking passporting rights for alternative investment funds (AIFs) giving seven a clear go-ahead with five others getting a qualified approval.

Alternatives | 14 Jul 16

Luxembourg’s reserved alternative investment fund (Raif) has been approved by the duchy’s parliament and will come into force three days after publication in Luxembourg’s official gazette.

Alternatives | 4 Jul 16

Financial services giant Standard Life Investments (SLI) has suspended all trading in its UK Real Estate Fund following an increase in redemption requests, triggering share sales in property and asset management companies.

Alternatives | 15 Jun 16

In today’s era of low interest rates, stock market fluctuation, and economic uncertainty, most people are faced with either low returns or high risk on their investments. For this reason, interest in alternatives – with their ability to diversify investments, reduce risk and provide uncorrelated returns – has grown significantly in recent years, according to Ophir Gertner, founder of invest.com.

Alternatives | 14 Jun 16

For the next five years investors with multi asset portfolios need to be thinking in terms of a 2.5-3.0% real rate of return and even then they will need to hold a lot more high risk assets, according to Pictet Asset Management.