Start-up managers favoured by most investors for opportunistic strategies

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Start-up managers favoured by most investors for opportunistic strategies

October 9, 2018

Limited Partners (LPs) are increasingly investing in first-time funds because they are more entrepreneurial, better placed to deliver specialist strategies and more likely to produce higher return than more established firms, according to a recent study.

Investors look to a variety of alternatives for diversification

August 23, 2018

Half of alternative assets investors allocate to three or more asset classes, according to a Preqin survey. Investors say diversification is the main reason for investing in alternatives.

Instiutional investors use outsourced CIOs to boost portfolio returns

June 5, 2018

Institutional invesetors are using outsourced chief investment officers (CIOs) to manage increasingly complex portfolios and to gain ccess to new asset classes.

Institutional investors need better tools to compare hedge funds and return streams

May 22, 2018

The top reasons given for investing in hedge funds were the potential for improved returns, diversification benefits, knowledge-sharing and learning and access to asset classes that are otherwise hard to source and manage, according to a report by CEM Benchmarking.