Alternative Investments

Since the early 1990s, investor interest in "alternative" asset classes has grown significantly. Such alternative assets cover a wide range of investment opportunities. The major categories include real estate, private equity, hedge funds, and more recently, infrastructure. An investment is considered "alternative" if it has relatively limited investment history, is relatively uncommon in investment portfolios, is relatively illiquid, has different performance characteristics than traditional assets, is rarely traded in public markets and requires specialized skills on the part of the investment manager.

By contrast, traditional investments have historically been comprised of stocks, bonds and cash equivalents, are traded in public markets, can be benchmarked and are managed by strategies that are not based on short selling, excess leverage, or the use of derivatives.

Global interest in alternative assets has gained increasing momentum over the past few years in particular and this trend has fuelled our activities in the real estate & hotel and leisure sectors. Our expertise enables us to offer bespoke investment solutions and services to both large and small scale investors, with genuine security and unrivalled returns.