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The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?

Musings on Markets

The first is that they have low correlations with financial assets (stocks and bonds), allowing for diversification benefits and the second is investments in some of these alternative asset groupings have the potential to earn excess returns or alphas.

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Appetite For Alternative Assets Grows In Private Banking

Global Finance

Preqin, an alternatives research firm, is forecasting that alternative assets under managementincluding private equity and credit, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, and infrastructure investmentswill rise from $16.8 Its not just about reducing risks but generating alpha and accessing opportunities you cant get in the public markets.

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AE Industrial’s ‘Captain’ Kirk Konert On Firefly Beating Musk’s SpaceX, PE Space Race

Global Finance

So therefore, AE Industrial is the only private equity firm with a portfolio company that has achieved this milestone. We are now past the point of asking, Is this an investable sector for private equity and private investment firms? Their Falcon 9 is not a perfect rocket for the missions that Fireflys Alpha should be serving.