alternative investments

Hermes Real Estate has hired Aviva Investors' manager Philip Nell as a fund director charged with overseeing a new property portfolio at the group.

Caspar Rock, the head of Architas multi-manager, and Lawrence Gosling, editorial director of Investment Week, discuss why using alternative assets as a diversifier in their income-generating multi-asset funds is a key point of difference for the group's...

Man AHL, the quantitative investment arm of Man Group, has launched four UCITs-compliant systematic strategies with different return profiles.

Why investors must avoid 'naive diversification'

Managers pick their top alternative assets

Lessons from Silicon Valley's tech companies

The board of the Schroder Real Estate investment trust is proposing to move the trust onshore and convert it to a REIT.

Alternative assets dominated investment trust fundraising in 2014, Winterflood figures show, as investors looked outside the mainstream for returns.

After five years languishing at the bottom of performance tables, the trend-following fund MAN AHL Diversity managed to produce a stellar return last year, as asset classes diverged.