alternative investments

Distribution arm reaches ten members

Dollar denominated assets reach £83m

Fund to offer diversification benefits

Firm responds to growing smart beta demand

Despite their age, investment trusts are becoming ever more specialist and diverse. Nick Greenwood, manager of the Miton Worldwide Growth investment trust, highlights the closed-ended opportunities in timber, German property, and UK smaller company specialists...

GAM has acquired the $1.2bn real estate finance arm of London-based asset manager Renshaw Bay as it seeks to broaden its business.

As the alternative investment market reaches its 20th anniversary this week, managers highlight some of the most impressive company successes - as well as the major failures on the junior market - over the past two decades.

An event highlighting the opportunities, challenges and risks for financial advisers and wealth managers accessing alternative investments returns to London later this year.

P2P Global Investments has raised £400m from its latest C share issue after receiving backing from a number of high-profile shareholders.