Alternatives

The numbers speak for themselves. The market for short-term options has proliferated during the past year and is now hitting daily notional volumes of...

Three quarters of Web 2.0 companies did not exist on Web 1.0. Who will be the winners and losers of Web 3.0 and why is the Metaverse important?

Private Equity secondaries are helping investors mitigate multiple risks. But finding the best private equity secondary managers is not so simple.

Is too late to hedge portfolio risk. Investors painfully acknowledge that multi-asset portfolios were challenged in 2022 from three sides.

Not surprisingly, anti-beta equity strategies did very well for investors who followed them in 2022 – after all, performing well when the stock market...

GP-Led Secondaries fill the gap at the extremes of the Private Equity opportunity set, bridging risks, returns and duration for professional investors.

Relative currency valuations are moving and moving fast. Driven by multi-speed monetary policy globally, investors are preparing to hedge currencies.

Against the US dollar, the Japanese yen is at a 24-year low. Over the same period, the domestic purchasing power of the dollar has almost halved, whilst...

Institutional Investors were not the first movers into crypto. But their scepticism has been helped by the evolving crypto market. Just not entirely.

The market cap of cryptocurrencies peaked in late-2021 at $3.0 tn and has since plummeted to around $1.3 tn. The primary catalyst for this decline has...

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) represent a new structural paradigm. But what are they, what are the risks, why is private equity investing.

Currency markets are gaining importance as changes in relative values impact asset classes across the globe. It may be time for a Currency Overlay.

Blockchain technology is reported to be a strong investment case, especially by Private Equity investment managers. It's application is developing fast.

Private Equity sponsored companies are often valued against their public equity market peers. But do valuations also move in tandem when markets turn down.

Will the USD continue it's dominance of global FX markets or can we expect some countries to embark on de-dollarisation by diversifying into Renminbi.

Valuing Private Equity Secondaries in volatile markets can result in a NAV that does not reflect the intrinsic value of the portfolio. Opportunities arise.