alternative investments

It was a good year for alternatives in 2022. Find out which major themes drove the top fund performance.

Interest in alternatives is growing at in incredible rate and they are increasingly accessible for investors. This wire showcases the opportunity.

Indulge us in a hypothetical: You’re uncertain of equities and fearful of recent volatility, but your portfolio is chock full of bonds to the limit of your asset...

AustralianSuper announced last year its plans to double its private equity exposure over the next five years. The Future Fund is speaking of a “new investment order”...

The Emperor’s New Clothes is a classic children’s story first published in 1837 which espouses several life principles that can be applied to investment markets....

There are more than 2,000 companies listed on the ASX, and unless your dominant trade has been in the commodities space, chances are it's been a rough 2022 so far....

If there is one statistic that has caught Livewire's Hans Lee by surprise of late, it's this: The S&P/ASX 200 VIX has doubled in five months. So how can investors...

It’s no secret that achieving outsized returns with a traditional asset management approach has become more and more difficult in recent years.At the same time, we saw...

Peter Costello gave a rather bleak assessment of financial markets in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) where he outlined the reasons behind the increasing...

Historically, private equity investments have primarily only been accessible to large and sophisticated institutions, endowment funds, family offices, and a limited...

Whether investors welcome it - or even realise it - cryptocurrency, or crypto, is having an impact on their portfolios. The immense size of the cryptocurrency...

With concerns looming about the possibility of an inflation fuelled market sell-off and the eventual tightening of monetary policy at the forefront of investors’...

As we approach the halfway mark of 2021 it’s fair to say there’s a lot going on. The first 100 days of the Biden presidency have elapsed, the COVID-19 vaccine is...

There are those that collect for the joy of it. Fine wines, postcards from far-off places, stamps from all-too-often forgotten eras, playing cards reminiscent of our...

As Andrew Schwartz of Qualitas called out in prior videos, the future seems exciting for alternative commercial real estate lenders as major banks scale back on...

Gone are the days where “prime property” is defined by its location, says Andrew Schwartz of Qualitas. The term is now being reshaped by the nature of the cash flow...

Commercial real estate transactions have slowed down noticeably as the Australian economy digests the economic impact from COVID-19, according to Andrew Schwartz of...

As investors contend with record low rates and significant cuts to shareholder dividends, savvy managers are creating investment solutions that meet the dual investor...

In Livewire's Bull versus Bear series, our experts outlined their case for where they feel the market is heading: is it going to stay strong, or collapse in a heap? In...

The Financial Times recently wrote an article, asking “has Warren Buffett lost his touch”. Do we agree? Read on to find out.The Financial Times recently wrote an...