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Alternative investments coverage for advisers, including hedge funds, commodities, and non-traditional asset class strategies.
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Bitcoin: the nonsensical asset that makes sense for now
When a 25-year-old English fund manager with £21 billion (A$37 billion) under management discloses it had made a sizable investment in bitcoin, it is bound to...
Private lending will be key to an economic recovery
Middle market companies contribute close to 25 per cent of Australia’s GDP and employ a similar portion of the population according to consulting firm...
Private debt - the new growth sector
It is no longer hype to talk up the growth in private lending. While some metrics on its size are questionable, typically including nearly everything that is...
Australian Unity issues Australian-first MCI
With interest rates at all-time lows, and term deposits lucky to be paying 0.5%, investors have simply been forced to look for alternative income-generating...
Bitcoin builds credibility for a new asset class
The recent surge in the market value of Bitcoin (BTC) has made headlines this holiday season as the underlying structure of the market continues to attract...
Allen Partners brings bitcoin manager to Australia
Due to its open-source ethos, bitcoin has travelled an unconventional growth path. For starters, no-one seems to know who invented it (rumoured to be a...
Alternative assets to hit $23 trillion by 2025
Assets in alternative investments are expected to grow by 9.8 per cent a year over the next five years, to hit US$17 trillion (A$23.4 trillion) by 2025,...
Expected returns 'lowest they've ever been'
Leading global ‘distressed debt’ manager Howard Marks and his Oaktree Capital firm are well-known for their sometimes combative and private equity...
Can credit replace lost dividends in a zero-rate world?
As 2020 comes to a close, investors of all kinds are faced with what seems to be a once-in-a-lifetime dilemma; how to generate an income in a zero-rate world....
When it comes to credit, experience pays
With advisers and investors faced with what appears to be zero-bound interest rates for at least the next three years, the already fast-growing alternative...
The time is right for an infrastructure boom, but who will win?
Long-short strategies, which involve giving a fund manager the flexibility to profit when share prices rise or fall, were gaining traction before the pandemic....