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As at 2016, €435 billion in alternative assets were held in Irish QIAIFs. Ireland is the fourth-largest domicile for Alternative Investment Funds ("AIF") in the EU with 9.9% of the €4.4 trillion EU AIF market, behind Germany (31.7%), France (21.3%) and Luxembourg (13%). [10]
At the time most of its investments were in the Americas but the plan was to reduce it to 50% while 25% would be allocated to Europe and Asia each to be more balanced. [ 7 ] In 2021, it was reported that QuadReal in less than five years since its launch, had become the third-largest real estate owner in Canada, surpassing CPP Investment Board ...
As the definition of alternative investments is broad, data and research vary widely across the investment classes. For example, art and wine investments may lack high-quality data. [ 10 ] The Goizueta Business School at Emory University has established the Emory Center for Alternative Investments to provide research and a forum for discussion ...
An umbrella fund is a collective investment scheme that exists as a single legal entity but has several distinct sub-funds which, in effect, are traded as individual investment funds. [1] In UK law, the concept is defined in Section 756B of the Finance Act 2004 [ 2 ] and is central to the structuring, taxation and regulation of small funds ...
The private-equity asset class is inherently illiquid and is designed for long-term investment by institutional investors, such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, and family offices for wealthy individuals. The secondary market provides these investors with an avenue for liquidity, enabling them to manage ...
CAIS offers platforms that gives financial access to a broad selection of investment strategies in alternative investments. [1] CAIS partners with wealth advisers such as Fidelity Investments, Hightower Advisors, Focus Financial Partners and William Blair & Company. It has worked with the largest hedge funds to offering their products through ...
Unitised insurance funds or unit-linked insurance funds are a form of collective investment offered life assurance policies. [1] An insurance company's contract may offer a choice of unit-linked funds to invest in. Insurers that offer these contracts are mainly found in the UK and British Isles offshore financial centres. All types of life ...
Alternative risk transfer (often referred to as ART) is the use of techniques other than traditional insurance and reinsurance to provide risk-bearing entities with coverage or protection. The field of alternative risk transfer grew out of a series of insurance capacity crises in the 1970s through 1990s that drove purchasers of traditional ...