Despite historical limitations to access alternative investment vehicles and their known liquidity challenges within the private sector, asset managers and advisers are expanding alternative offerings through new products and platform access to drive adoption, according to the latest Cogent Syndicated Trends in Alternative Investments report from Escalent.
Currently, more than four in ten advisers (44 percent) who use alternative investments consider these products peripheral in their client’s portfolios, while 32 percent consider them a hedge, and just 24 percent a core component. However, as advisers’ knowledge base a
