What are the best alternative investment opportunities still available?

The Big Question: What are the best alternative investment opportunities today?

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With returns from mainstream asset classes becoming harder to come by, where are the best alternative opportunities? Managers from across the investment spectrum reveal their best alternative opportunities.

Caspar Rock, chief investment officer, Architas   Ground rents   We currently hold the Brooks Macdonald Ground Rents Income fund across a number of our portfolios. Ground rents are the annual payments paid by the leaseholder of a property to the owner of the freehold. The asset has very high credit quality as any default on a ground rent payment can result in the repossession of property, which is worth multiples of the value of the unpaid rent. The ground rent contracts are the same length as the lease for the underlying property, sometimes hundreds of years, so it provides inv...

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