alternative investments

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.

Thomas Miller Investment has launched a Diversified Assets fund in a bid to offer uncorrelated returns to investors.

Dexion Capital has been acquired by Australian boutique fund manager Fidante Partners for £19.6m.

TwentyFour Asset Management's UK Mortgages investment trust has raised £250m during its initial public offering.

Analysts have expressed concerns about the disclosure policies of some specialist investment trusts as investors continue to pile into alternative assets.