Alternatives encompass a wide range of asset classes beyond traditional equities and bonds, including private equity, venture capital, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, and hedge funds.
Private market strategies can provide access to investments and exposures not available in traditional asset classes, while long/short equity and hedge fund strategies can provide uncorrelated sources of return with daily liquidity, smoothing portfolio returns.
By operating in less efficient environments, alternatives create potential for skilled managers to deliver differentiated returns through complexity, illiquidity, and information advantages.
Meet our Alternatives Fund Managers
Each brings a unique approach to investing, giving you the flexibility to choose strategies that align with your goals.
Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with Apollo Management Singapore, its subsidiary) is a high-growth alternative asset manager. Their asset management business provides companies with innovative capital solutions and support to fund their growth and build stronger businesses. View Funds.
Challenger Investment Management is an alternative credit manager with a strong pedigree in the less liquid parts of the global credit market.
Challenger Solutions is a systematic manager that captures alpha arising from behavioural and market anomalies.
System Capital is an absolute return global equities manager. The team’s philosophy and process focuses on understanding a business's strength within its business ecosystem.
Fulcrum Asset Management is an alternatives asset manager specialising in global macro strategies. Guided by innovative research, a disciplined investment process and effective risk management, Fulcrum aims to be their clients’ most trusted long-term partner.
Proterra Asia is committed to investing responsibly because investing in the food sector has the potential to create positive change, from individual lives and local communities to sweeping global planetary impacts.
Resonance Asset Management is a UK-regulated institutional investment management business investing in private sustainable energy and resource efficiency businesses to accelerate the energy transition.
What are Alternatives?
Alternatives refer to a broad category of investments outside traditional equities and bonds, including private equity, venture capital, private credit, real assets, infrastructure, hedge funds and multi strategy approaches. These strategies often operate in less efficient or harder to access markets, allowing skilled managers to generate differentiated sources of return through complexity, illiquidity and information advantages. Alternatives can provide exposure to investment themes and opportunities not available in public markets, offering potential for enhanced diversification and more stable long term outcomes.
Why Invest in Alternatives?
Alternatives play a powerful role in portfolio construction by delivering returns that are typically less correlated with traditional asset classes. This helps smooth overall performance, particularly during periods of equity or bond market volatility. Private market strategies can unlock growth and income opportunities through active ownership, structural value creation and negotiated deal terms, while liquid alternatives – such as long/short or multi strategy funds – aim to provide uncorrelated returns with daily liquidity. By incorporating alternative strategies, investors can access a wider opportunity set, improve diversification, and enhance the resilience of long term portfolios.
Why Choose Fidante for Alternatives
- Access to leading private equity, private credit, and multi-strategy managers
- Deep expertise across non-traditional strategies and markets
- Diversified return streams with low correlation to traditional asset classes
- Exposure to differentiated opportunities through private and liquid alternative strategies
- Strength, governance and distribution expertise of the Fidante platform
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FAQs on Alternatives
Alternatives refer to a broad category of investments outside traditional equities and bonds. These include private equity, venture capital, private credit, real assets, infrastructure, hedge funds and multi strategy approaches. Alternatives can offer access to opportunities that are not available in public markets and can help diversify a portfolio.
Alternative investments often operate in less efficient or harder to access markets. Fund managers may use specialised strategies such as active ownership, long and short positioning, private deal structuring or systematic approaches. These strategies aim to generate differentiated sources of return that behave differently to traditional markets.
Alternatives can reduce overall portfolio volatility because their returns are typically less correlated with equities and bonds. They may provide additional income, access to unique opportunities and more stable performance during periods of market stress. This can help improve long term portfolio resilience.
Alternatives span a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, venture capital, private credit, infrastructure, real estate, hedge funds and liquid multi strategy funds. Each category provides different risk and return characteristics and offers access to specialised opportunities.
Alternatives can involve different types of risk compared with traditional assets. Private markets may involve illiquidity and longer investment horizons, while hedge funds and liquid alternative strategies may use leverage or short selling. Skilled managers help manage these risks through disciplined research, diversification and structured processes.
Investors can access alternatives through private market funds, wholesale vehicles, listed investment trusts, or liquid alternative funds. These strategies may provide exposure to private equity, private credit, infrastructure or multi strategy approaches in a way that suits different investor needs and liquidity preferences.
Private market strategies such as private equity and private credit invest in assets that are not traded on public exchanges and typically require longer investment periods. Liquid alternatives, such as long and short equity or multi strategy funds, aim to provide alternative return streams with daily liquidity.