Alternative investments
03 May 2012
Following the announcement of Robert Parker’s latest wine scores, Scott Assemakis, managing director and founder of European Fine Wines, analyses the state of the asset class.
26 April 2012
Britain’s most expensive stamp, a 'plate 77 Penny Red', has been sold for £550,000 to a private client seeking portfolio diversification.
17 April 2012
FMG, a specialist emerging markets investment firm, has launched a Mongolian-focussed investment fund.
17 April 2012
Stirling Mortimer, the offshore property fund caught up in a dispute over €9.8m of cash which went missing from one of its cell funds, has agreed an out of court settlement to end an upcoming legal battle.
10 April 2012
Investment Week is hosting its inaugural Alternative Assets Focus on Wednesday 25 April 2012 at the Cumberland Hotel in London.
30 March 2012
Alternative assets were supposed to be the big new thing. Investors were destined to shed their traditional inhibitions and embrace a new world that consisted of sexy stuff that would be very different from boring gilts and blue-chip equities.
23 March 2012
Barclays has launched an investment strategy to give investors exposure to the Vix volatility index.
02 March 2012
Renaissance Asset Managers has launched a Luxembourg-domiciled fund aiming to tap into growth in the frontier markets.
24 February 2012
Aberdeen Asset Management has renamed its £24bn alternative investment offering, which includes its multi-manager range, to better reflect strategies within the business.
18 January 2012
Funds under management at Man Group-owned GLG shrank by $1bn in the three months to the end of 2011, according to a trading statement released today.
13 January 2012
Equity returns were poor in 2011 during a rollercoaster year for markets, but there were a number of bright spots in the alternative investments space.
19 December 2011
MAM Funds portfolio manager Nick Greenwood explains why investors must take care to avoid being stung by high charges in the closed-ended fund of hedge funds sector.
18 November 2011
Capita Financial Managers, which wants Arch Cru investors to accept a payoff linked to the sale of assets from the suspended fund range, has admitted that three-quarters of the remaining value of the cells is uncertain.
14 November 2011
Marcus Carlton, director of HFM Columbus Wealth Management, looks at the risks and benefits of this alternative investment.
30 June 2011
In today's Friday Finance, Investment Week's editorial director Lawrence Gosling interviewed Gerrit Heynes, partner at Osmosis Investment Management, on climate change.
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