The alternative income play attracting multi-managers

MULTI-MANAGERS

With income proving harder to find in traditional asset classes, yield hunters are looking to alternatives, not least infrastructure plays.

Robert Burdett & Gary Potter Fund managers at Thames River Multi Capital The advent of the credit crunch and the consequential reduction in interest rates received on deposits have caused a significant increase in the desirability of income producing assets on a global basis, a trend that seems unlikely to abate anytime soon. At the same time, sources of income from a number of traditional asset classes that specifically target it have fallen quite considerably. This change is causing an increased interest in assets that can provide a more stable and reliable income stream, parti...