Investors Plan To Increase Exposures Across The Alternatives Landscape: Preqin

The majority of investors remain confident in the ability of alternative assets to help achieve portfolio objectives across all alternatives asset classes, and investors plan to enhance their exposure, notes a Preqin study.

After conducting in-depth interviews with over 440 institutional investors, Preqin published a report titled: “Alternative Assets H1 2015” pointing out that the alternatives sector is seeing institutional investors diversifying their portfolios across asset classes including private debt.

Growing importance of alternatives

According to the Preqin report, alternative assets continue to play an important role in institutional investors’ portfolios, with investors increasing weightings to these asset classes. As demonstrated in the following diagram, investors further diversify their portfolios through new allocations to the growing range of alternative asset classes...