Liquid Alternatives
Liquid Alternative investments have emerged over the past decade as one of the fastest-growing areas within asset management. As pensions, endowments, foundations and other institutional investors have long benefited from Alternative Investments within their portfolios, Liquid Alternatives enable investors to have access to alternative investment strategies in fund structures that provide daily liquidity, full transparency, low investment minimums and other key attributes for investors. DailyAlts is your source for the most up-to-the-minute news, commentary and analysis on the global market for Liquid Alternatives.
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Canadian fund manager Purpose Investments Inc has launched the Purpose Cash Management Fund on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The yields on the fund investments are expected to rise in tandem with the rate hikes to be implemented by the Bank of Canada in its effort to tame inflation.
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Liquid Alternatives: The Wilshire Liquid Index Returns 1.3% in August
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index returned 1.3% in August. The index provides a representative baseline for the performance of the broader liquid alts space. This figure fell short of the 1.54% return from the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index in August.
Liquid Alternatives: “A Must-Have Component” To Weather Volatility
An article by Kathryn M. Fuller, Carol E. Derk, Ronald M. Kosonic, and Roma Lotay of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP titled “2020 Spotlight on alternative mutual funds – opportunities ahead” published in LEXOLOGY on September 10. Alternative mutual funds (informally referred to as “liquid alt funds”) may emerge “as a must-have component of a portfolio’s personal protective equipment,” says the article.
Liquid Alternatives: One Solution For Navigating The Challenges From Unprecedented Low Bond Yields
In a note titled “A Roadmap For Navigating Today’s Low Interest Rates,” GMO’s Matt Kadnar warns investors of three challenging fallouts from today’s unprecedented low bond yields. These are: replacing the income bonds used to provide; the loss of depression protection arising from bond yields having little or no room to fall; and protection against the twin risks of rising inflation and rising interest rates.
Liquid Alternatives: Soon, On A Blockchain With The Archax+ Algorand Tie-Up
Archax and blockchain provider Algorand will collaborate to create smart financial products that can trade on the newly FCA-regulated Archax digital exchange. These innovative new products include stablecoins and liquid alternatives. The latter are financial products, available in an ETF or mutual fund wrapper, that employ alternative investment strategies but can be bought or sold every day.
Liquid Alternatives: A Potential Golden Era Afoot For Liquid Alternatives
Davin Hood, managing director at Cor Capital, a Melbourne-based investment manager, feels that now is not a good time to ignore alternatives. “A fundamental economic standpoint is clearly one of a high degree of risk and traditional asset allocations have been heavily tied to equity market growth,” he observes. Hood advocates an absolute return mindset that focuses on the reduction of drawdowns to allow for the power of compounding of returns.
Liquid Alternatives: Churn Amongst Senior Portfolio Managers at AllianzGI Liquid Alt Funds
Portfolio managers at AllianzGI for three funds in the market neutral long/short category and one fund in the merger arbitrage strategy have been reassigned.
Liquid Alternatives/ESG: New Challenges for Pension Financing and Retirement Security
The webinar by the Bloomberg Women’s Buyside Network featured John Livanas, Chief Executive Officer, State Super; Geraldine Buckingham, Chair and Head of Asia Pacific, BlackRock; and Ludovic Subran, Chief Economist, Allianz. Bloomberg’s Executive Editor, Tracy Alloway, moderated the webinar.
Private Equity: Onex Corporation Promotes Le Blanc to President
Private Equity: Onex Corporation Promotes Le Blanc to President Private equity firm Onex has promoted Bobby Le Blanc to president. He will now oversee all business ventures and will serve as head of Onex Partners. Le Blanc will also be in charge of reporting to Chairman and CEO Gerry Schwartz. According to Schwartz, “Having joined…
Private Equity: Private Equity Takes Away from Texas Retirement System
Private Equity Takes Away from Texas Retirement System The Employees’ Retirement System of Texas’s private equity portfolio has lost 2.14 percent as of June 30. The private equity portfolio is worth $4.4 billion, but it was the biggest detractor at a 1.9 percent loss. Before the Coronavirus pandemic, the private equity portfolio was strong at…
ESG Investments to Gain Popularity in Real Estate
ESG Investments to Gain Popularity in Real Estate As the environment becomes more of a priority among the public, environmental responsibility has become a priority for businesses and organizations as well. The looming effects of climate change are pressuring businesses and corporations to take action. Oil and gas companies in particular are facing increasing pressure…
Liquid Alternatives: Prime Capital to Launch Liquid Alts Credit Fund
Liquid Alts Proliferate as Their Attributes Shine. Independent asset manager Prime Capital is one of the lastest firms to roll out a liquid credit fund. The fund offers a range of alternative credit strategies, including trade finance and real estate bridge financing. This fund will invest between 15 and 20 funds globally. They will be…
Liquid Alternatives Enable Access for Individuals to Alternative Investments
Liquid Alts Offer Endowment Style Investing to Individuals. Liquid alternatives consist of a wide variety of investment options, strategies and portfolio options. Alternative investment prevalence has been growing in recent years among both everyday investors and large financial institutions. This growth in popularity has largely benefitted individual investors in mulitple respects. Alternative investments have historically…
Illinois Municipal Fund Earmarks $125 millions for Alternative Investments
Alternative Investments: Illinois Municipal Fund Earmarks $125 millions for Alternative Investments Oak Brook — an Illinois-based Municipal Retirement Fund — has designated $125 million for alternative investments. The $125 million will be split — $75 million will be invested in Clearlake Flagship Plus Partners. $25 million will be invested in EnCap Energy Transition Fund I,…
Liquid Alternatives: Prime Capital Launches Liquid Alts Credit Fund
Prime Capital’s Liquid Alternative Credit Fund, a new fund of funds, will invest in 15 to 20 underlying funds which are diversified globally and invest in alternative credit strategies such as trade finance and real estate bridge financing. Prime Capital AG manages €17.2bn of assets in various funds.
Private Equity: Healthcare Firm Edifecs Lands PE Deal
Private equity firms TA Associates and Francsico Partners announced that they will complete a deal with healthcare software company Edifecs. CEO of Edifecs Sunny Singh intends to lead the company through a transformation. The healthcare industry is quickly changing with the help of the technology sector. According to Singh, “Today’s healthcare industry is in a…
Real Assets Investing Through REITs
“We desperately need income, but we are in a yieldless world,” writes analyst Jussi Askola in “The New Gold Rush.” Zero or negative interest rates are going to push investors into real assets.
Liquid Alternatives Rocket Higher as Australia Takes Off
Liquid Alts Show Strength Amid Global Pandemic. Liquid Alternative investments are rapidly growing in the United States and around the world. In one of the latest signs of global espousement of Liquid Alts, ARP Investments secured a partnership with Axius Partners, a Sydney based company, for broad-based distribution. Liquid alternative strategies are in high demand…
Liquid Alternatives: Picton Mahoney Launches New Long Short Alternative Fund
Canadian asset manager Picton Mahoney Asset Management has launched a new alternative investment fund that protects investors from the risks to the downside from equities. The fund is available in the versions of mutual fund and ETF. The Picton Mahoney Fortified Long Short Alternative Fund will use short positions to achieve risk mitigation.
Liquid Alternatives Showing Their Strength Amid 2020’s Volatility
Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index Up in June. The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index was up nearly 1% in June, continuing to show strength in navigating this year’s wild market ride. The Index is a benchmark for the performance of Liquid Alternative Funds. Longtime Wilshire Associates veteran, Jason Schwarz, said that “Markets rallied in the second quarter…
Liquid Alternatives: “The Most Hated Stock Rally in History” Proves Pundits Wrong…Again
Salvatore J. Bruno, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director, IndexIQ, makes the interesting point that it is hard to predict how markets will behave around a significant inflection point. Writing in ETF Trends he observes that, as usual, markets were ahead of the curve and discounting an economic recovery that was invisible to economists and analysts.
Private Equity: Global Alternertives Giant Apollo Moves Deeper Into Direct Lending
Apollo Global Management is planning a $12 billion direct lending and alternative credit fund. The firm will utilize these funds to provide $1 billion in loans to various companies. Abu Dhabi fund Mubadala backs this Investment along with other investors involved in the project. Direct lending will allow investors to invest in high-quality businesses and…
Liquid Alternatives: Waratah Launches Liquid Alternative Mutual Fund With ESG
Waratah Capital Advisors Ltd, a Canadian alternative investment manager, announced Monday its launch of the Waratah Alternative ESG Fund. The mutual fund is Waratah’s second liquid alternative offering, and is powered by the firm’s alternative ESG strategy.
Private Equity: PE Giants Genstar and TA Behind Orion-Brinker Merger
Private equity player Genstar Capital played a catalytic role in bringing about a merger of platform provider Orion Advisor Solutions with investment manager Brinker Capital to form an entity with an estimated $40 billion in managed assets.
Liquid Alternatives: Rhode Island Pension Gains from Liquid Alts; Adds Wilshire Veteran Andrew Junkin
The Rhode Island pension system beat the median U.S. public pension plan by 4.2% during the first quarter of 2020, according to data from Investment Metrics. That ranked the fund 28th among the 546 public pension funds across the country. Even during the coronavirus mayhem in the markets, the Rhode Island pension fell 9.6% compared to the decline of 13.8% of the median pension plan.