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Investing in alternative assets during volatile times

  • Describe how alternative investments perform in a high-inflation environment
  • Explain the benefits of investing in alternative assets
  • Explain how to mitigate the risks of investing in private assets
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“Furthermore, single strategies may behave radically differently from their category due to the high degree of flexibility, thereby making investment selection key when it comes to forming investors' expectations on single alternative investments.”

Ima Jackson-Obot is deputy features editor at FTAdviser

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Approx.30min

Please answer the six multiple choice questions below in order to bank your CPD. Multiple attempts are available until all questions are correctly answered.

  1. What is an example of how private market investments can offer investors access to sustainable and impact-focused strategies?

  2. Why does Nick Hyett say that alternative asset classes, like real estate, forestry and infrastructure, should perform better when inflation is high?

  3. Why does Hyett say that returns in the VCT market have the potential to grow even when the wider economy is shrinking?

  4. Which of the following is the odd one out for the different benefits of alternative investing?

  5. Why might cash and short-term bonds represent appropriate funding sources for alternatives?

  6. Other than only accounting for a small proportion of most investment portfolios, what is another way that the risks associated with alternative investments can be mitigated?

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  • Describe how alternative investments perform in a high-inflation environment
  • Explain the benefits of investing in alternative assets
  • Explain how to mitigate the risks of investing in private assets

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