Alternative Investments:
Wealth Managers Increasing their Usage of 1940 Act Registered Funds and their Usage of Private Equity & Private Credit
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Date Published: April 3, 2025
Summary PowerPoint Deck: 522 Slides
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The purpose of this research is to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of alternative investments, including hedge funds, private markets, and real estate & real assets. Alternative investments are sometimes pitched as having high returns and other times as being portfolio diversification strategies. Alternative investments can also potentially be more complex, more volatile, more expensive, and less liquid than traditional stocks, bonds, & cash. These products are typically structured as unregistered funds (private funds) investments. This report also includes 1940 Act Registered Funds. This research is incorporated into Tiburon's broader coverage of managed funds, along with Tiburon's coverage of registered investment companies, comingled trust funds, separately managed accounts, and non-financial alternative investments.
This research starts with a context setting chapter that outlines the basis of growth in alternative investments, including these key driving factors:
Date Published: April 3, 2025
Summary PowerPoint Deck: 522 Slides
Reference PowerPoint Deck: 1,125 Slides
The purpose of this research is to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of alternative investments, including hedge funds, private markets, and real estate & real assets. Alternative investments are sometimes pitched as having high returns and other times as being portfolio diversification strategies. Alternative investments can also potentially be more complex, more volatile, more expensive, and less liquid than traditional stocks, bonds, & cash. These products are typically structured as unregistered funds (private funds) investments. This report also includes 1940 Act Registered Funds. This research is incorporated into Tiburon's broader coverage of managed funds, along with Tiburon's coverage of registered investment companies, comingled trust funds, separately managed accounts, and non-financial alternative investments.
This research starts with a context setting chapter that outlines the basis of growth in alternative investments, including these key driving factors:
- Less Certain Traditional Securities Markets
- Superior Investment Returns in Varying Alternative Investments
- Higher Correlations Between Traditional Investments
This research addresses the key historical phases of alternative investments, including:
- Hedge Funds Phase
- Venture Capital Phase
- Liquid Alternatives Take I Phase
- Real Estate Equity & Debt Phase
- Venture Capital, Private Equity, & Private Credit Phase
- Liquid Alternatives Take II Phase
This research defines the broad markets segments (and numerous sub-segments) of alternative investments, including:
- Hedge Funds
- Equity Hedge Fund Strategies
- Arbitrage or Relative Value Hedge Fund Strategies
- Event Driven Hedge Fund Strategies
- Global Macro Hedge Fund Strategies
- Hedge Funds-of-Funds
- Private Markets
- Venture Capital
- Private Equity
- Private Credit
- Funds of Funds
- Secondaries
- Real Estate & Real Assets
- Real Estate
- Real Assets
This research addresses the product structure market segments of alternative investments, including:
- Unregistered Funds (Private Funds)
- 1940 Act Registered Funds
This research also addresses the markets & distribution channels of alternative investments, including:
- Global Institutional Markets
- Non-United States Wealth Management Firms
- United States Wealth Management Firms
And this research makes several future predictions for alternative investments, including:
- Loosening of the Accredited Investor Rule and Potential for Alternative Investments Inclusion in Defined Contribution Plans Under President Trump Administration
- Substantial Growth of Alternative Investments
- Continued Dominance of Private Markets with Private Equity & Private Credit as Leading Alternative Investments
- Rapid Evolution of Product Structures and Increasing Share for 1940 Act Registered Funds, Including Interval Funds
- Fastest Growth in Wealth Management Firms
- Substantial Opportunities for Alternative Investments Platforms with Comprehensive Alternative Investments Platforms Acquiring Leading-Edge One-Off B2C & B2B Platforms, and the Ultimate Acquisition of Alternative Investments Platforms by Custodians and/or Turnkey Asset Management Platforms (TAMPs)
- Modest Alternative Investments Firms Venture Capital Investing
- Continuing Alternative Investments Firms Mergers & Acquisitions Activity
- Potential for Alternative Investments Firms Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
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