Alternatives

Our alternatives solutions seek to generate income, offer inflation mitigation, achieve return targets and add diversification to portfolios.

Alternatives Insights

Our approach

In today’s market environment, investors need to consider new, dynamic opportunities to meet their return objectives. Our alternatives platform provides a spectrum of innovative investments that, when used correctly, may play a key role in generating new sources of return and portfolio diversification. Our solutions span real estate, real assets, private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and liquid alternatives.

Outcome-focused strategies

Expertise

Clients may benefit from the specialist knowledge and global reach of our independent alternative investments teams.

Process

Our approach is based on proven fundamental and quantitative research and a deep understanding of global markets.

Results

We are one of the world’s largest alternatives asset managers and bring over 60 years of experience delivering innovative strategies across market cycles.

Alternative Investing

We discuss our global alternative investing solutions across private equity, private debt, real assets, hedge funds and more.

Guide to Alternatives

Designed to simplify the complex world of alternative investments to help you make more informed decisions across real estate, infrastructure, private markets and hedge funds.

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Research & Insights

Obesity drugs: How much truth is behind the weight loss hype?

We see a significant market for highly effective weight loss drugs that appear destined to transform the medical treatment of obesity.

Hedge funds: Interest rates and hedge fund returns historically rise in tandem. Here’s why

JPMAAM historical data suggests that, on average, hedge fund excess returns (i.e. total return minus equity beta) and interest rates have risen in tandem going back 28 years to the inception of our hedge fund data set.

The adaptation challenge: New technologies help prepare at-risk communities

As the net-zero deadline approaches, funding adaptation technology to ensure a just transition may protect lives—and livelihoods

Catching the next wave of powerful cancer therapeutics

Market tailwinds are driving development of an exciting new class of oncology drugs: antibody drug conjugates, which are specifically engineered to tackle difficult-to-treat cancers.

Multi-family property investing in Japan 2.0: Still delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns

In recent years, cross-border investments into Japan multi-family has grown and now exceeds 20% of net investment inflows.

Alternatives Asset Class outlook

Alternatives seek to offer AID (alpha, inflation protection, dislocation opportunities) for the trek through 2023

Private Equity Outlook

Learn about Private Equity Outlook for 2023, including in early-stage Venture Capital investing and in smaller and middle markets.

Growth Equity outlook: Innovation to drive value

Learn about capital investment opportunities and trends in new climate technology and life sciences companies with our Growth Equity Outlook for 2023

U.S. real estate outlook: Pockets of demand still exist

Read our U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook for the year 2023 and identify investment opportunities and prospects within the housing market.

European real estate outlook: Economic uncertainty creates opportunities

Learn more the European Real Estate Outlook for 2023, with a focus on office, industrial and logistics sectors.

Macro strategies outlook: Disinflation and robotics

Learn more about the Alternatives Macroeconomic Outlook for 2023, including disinflation and opportunities in equities and robotics innovation

Hedge funds outlook: Change and opportunity

Look out for market trends and new opportunities in 2023 with our hedge fund outlook to help you decide for your next investment

Convertible debt outlook: Systemic and cyclical trends present opportunities

Look out for market trends and new opportunities in 2023 with our convertible bond market outlook to help you decide for your next investment

Asia-Pacific real estate outlook: Demand underpins performance

Learn about the Asia Pacific Real Estate Market Outlook to find out more about how external factors are expected to impact performance over 2023.

Mezzanine debt outlook: Expecting higher returns for lower leverage loans

Explore our Mezzanine Debt Market Outlook outlining mezz financing with higher rates, tighter liquidity, less competition, and lower risk favoring lenders.

Infrastructure debt outlook: Performance remains resilient

Learn about the 2022 infrastructure debt outlook as performance is expected to remain resilient during an inflationary environment.

Commercial mortgage loan outlook

Read the Commercial Mortgage Loan Outlook for 2023, with a focus on office, retail, multifamily and industrial sectors

Transportation investment outlook: Navigating global supply chain shifts

Explore our Transportation Industry Outlook to find out how external factors such as disrupted supply chains are expected to impact performance over 2023.

Alternatives Outlook

Persistently high inflation, high rates and high volatility are creating an Alternatives investment landscape unlike any we've faced - but with the right preparation we will be equipped for the wilds of 2023.

Global Special Situations outlook: Attractive risk-reward profiles

Learn about the Private Credit Global Special Situations Outlook to find out more about how bespoke private investments may continue to offer attractive risk-reward profiles in 2023.

Infrastructure Outlook

Learn about the Core Private Infrastructure Market Outlook in 2023 in regard to inflation protection and uncorrelated returns.

Investing in Timberland: Demand remains strong as carbon interest accelerates

Learn more about how investing in Timberland assets can help investors with reliable income returns and capital appreciation as well as hedging inflation.

Taking a byte out of GHG emissions

Find the role energy usage data can play in catalyzing a sustainable real estate industry and helping reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

Alternative asset returns

When investing in alternatives, it is important to consider the return calculation methodology. Read more about how to measure investment returns.

Performance Dispersion

Learn more about the sources and magnitude of performance dispersion to better manage the risk of alternative investments in your portfolio.

Improving portfolios’ equity diversification with hybrid alternative assets

Discover how opportunities in nontraditional asset classes, such as diversified hedge funds, may help provide stability during market volatility.

Diversified core-plus transportation

A diversified approach to transportation investing has the potential to offer resilience and help investors mitigate portfolio volatility.

The DEI opportunity in private equity

Diverse private equity firms (DEI) are an expanding and critical component of both the emerging manager and broader private equity industry

Returning shoppers and fresh spending reinvigorate retail assets

With increased consumer sales and mall and store traffic, the outlook for real assets is turning more positive and pointing to brighter days ahead.

Core Alternative Assets Deliver What Public Markets Cannot

Explore alternative asset opportunities, such as core alternatives, to substitute traditional public assets and improve portfolio outcomes

The industrial real estate outlook for APAC markets

Explore the positive outlook for the industrial sector in APAC markets, supported by projected long-term growth in consumption, wealth, and trade volumes.

Real estate assets: Essential in a low return world

See how core real estate may enhance portfolio performance in a low rate, low return environment with rising inflation expectations.

Infrastructure returns: resilient and supported by income

Nick Moller, Investment Specialist in the Infrastructure Investments Group, discusses the private infrastructure market, how it performed in 2020 and what to expect in 2021 and beyond.

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