Deep Dive: Too many investors are ill timing their liquid alternatives investments

'A diversifier is not a hedge’

Liquid alternatives have traditionally been used as a portfolio diversifier, but investors have frequently ill-timed their allocation to the asset class, experts warned.

As its name suggests, liquid alternatives are a mix of alternative investment strategies, securities or techniques that offer investors differentiated sources of return versus traditional equity and fixed income markets. Former GAM CEO candidate Randel Freeman appointed co-CIO of specialist alternatives investments They are typically structured within a daily liquid regulated fund format, Rachel Eisman, liquid alternatives investor at JPM Morgan Asset Management, explained, which means there is greater transparency compared to traditional hedge funds, as well as a high degree of gover...