Alternatives

Our alternatives solutions help generate income, achieve return targets and add diversification to portfolios.

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, can 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 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 50 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.

Research & Insights

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.

European real estate: Opportunities in a time of change and complexity

Learn how the European real estate market is characterized by both change and complexity that has been amplified by COVID-19.

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.

Alternative Asset Management Outlook

Given the uncertain near-term outlook, we believe it is prudent to focus on strategies that do well in volatility and are ready to take advantage of market dislocations.

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

Global Alternatives Outlook

Explore the most promising investment ideas across our global alternatives platform and learn why alternatives are no longer optional—but essential.

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.

ESG-aligned transport investing

As the global energy landscape changes and the focus on ESG grows, explore how investing in transportation can help to achieve sustainable investing goals.