Tag Archives: alternative assets
CI Global Asset Management Completes Acquisition of Forge First, Expanding its Lineup of Alternative Investments
Share (HedgeCo.Net) (“CI GAM”) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Toronto-based alternative asset manager Forge First Asset Management Inc. (“Forge First”).The transaction, first announced on September 9, 2025, adds four alternative investment funds with combined assets of approximately $900 million to CI […]
Investor Behavior Shift in Alternatives: The Democratization of Alternative Assets
(HedgeCo.Net) Alternative assets have historically been the province of large institutions—endowments, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds. But that paradigm is shifting: according to recent commentary, up to US$80 trillion of potential capital might be “unlocked” by opening up alternative assets to non-institutional […]
Shell Fund to Expand Alternative Investments
Wall Street Journal – One of the U.K.’s biggest pension plans is moving forward with a strategy to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in alternative assets, potentially including hedge funds for the first time. The £10.6 billion ($16.8 billion) […]
Hedge funds for the average investor
Bankrate.com – Alternative assets are a good diversification tool because they’re generally not correlated to the stock market. This means when the market goes down, alternative assets may go up or stay the same and vice versa. Large investors such […]
LGT Capital Partners holds first close of latest secondaries fund on $268m
AltAssets – LGT Capital Partners, an alternative assets manager, has held the first close of its listed fund Crown Global Secondaries II on $268m. The overall fundraising target of the fund is $750m. Tycho Sneyers, partner at LGT Capital Partners, […]
Fund managers eye hedge fund stress tests
Reuters – Fund managers need to stress-test worst-case scenarios more rigorously before investing in hedge funds, industry participants at a hedge fund conference said on Thursday. Many existing stress tests, used to gauge how funds will perform in extreme market […]
Major pension scheme sticks by hedge fund move
Reuters – The nation’s second-largest pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), said it was sticking by a medium-term plan to double exposure to alternative assets such as hedge funds and private equity. The 23 billion pound pension scheme confirmed […]
Major pension scheme sticks by hedge fund move
Reuters UK – The nation’s second-largest pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), said it was sticking by a medium-term plan to double exposure to alternative assets such as hedge funds and private equity. The 23 billion pound pension scheme […]
Major UK pension scheme sticks by hedge fund move
Forbes – Britain’s second-largest pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), said it was sticking by a medium-term plan to double exposure to alternative assets such as hedge funds and private equity. The 23 billion pound ($32.79 billion) pension scheme […]
