This session looks at the reasons behind the growth in the alternative investment market since 2008, covering the difficulties investors face in conventional markets, the attractions to product providers and the outcomes – both positive and negative.
As more and more investors opt to invest in the shiny stuff, we examine the choices for buying into gold, ranging from purchasing gold and bullion bars all the way through to investing in gold funds.
This straight talking show aimed at finance professionals investigates the exotic and sometimes emotional world of alternative investments with Guy Tolhurst, from the 2013 Alternative Investment Summit and Managing Director of Intelligent Partnership.
Lawrence Gosling and David Stevenson discuss why so many investors choose to focus on emotional and collectible assets such as stamps, cars and art – are these alternative assets a great diversifier or are they simply too risky for the mainstream investor?
Investors are constantly encouraged to ‘diversify’ their investments across different classes, with many experts suggesting that ‘alternative assets’ might be a sensible source of future returns. But is this focus on everything from commodities through to rare cars and stamps, a wise idea for the average investor?
In this short video, Intelligent Partnership’s Luke Jackson looks at what has happened to gold and precious metals recently and what that outlook may be for the future.
In this short video, Intelligent Partnership’s Luke Jackson looks at some of the benefits and risks of investing in collectibles, as well as what is available for investors. He also highlights some of the questions that investors, and their advisers, should be asking as part of their due diligence process before investing in this sector.
In this module we look at what sort of investments are covered by the term ‘alternative investment’, summarise the legal structures that have been utilised and review the asset classes covered by the alternative investment marketplace
Do you know the key difference between CIS and UCIS? In this article written by Daniel Kiernan, you will learn exactly what sets these two apart, and why one is considered more risky than the other.
This in-depth sector report on Energy and Renewables comprises a detailed investment case for energy, demand and supply, imvestment considerations and potential in the sector as well as the first register of all energy and renewable investments currently available.
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