iCapital has appointed Drew Carrington as managing director of alternatives in retirement portfolios. Reporting to Dan Vene, co-founder and managing director of iCapital, and co-head of iCapital ...

Wealth management research and consulting firm F2 Strategy has expanded its scope through the acquisition of a New York-based boutique that advises hedge funds, hybrid funds, and private credit ...

Galapagos (GLPG) announced that its board of directors had decided to explore all strategic alternatives for its cell therapy business, including a potential divestiture of the Cell Therapy Business, ...

As financial advisors navigate an increasingly complex investment landscape, the traditional 60/40 stock-bond portfolio allocation is facing unprecedented challenges. With heightened market volatility ...

First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF offers a long/short strategy to lower long exposure and playoff long/short spreads. The FTLS ETF blends quantitative and fundamental analysis to determine net ...

AMG has announced its plan to acquire a minority equity interest in Verition Fund Management LLC, a global multi-strategy investment firm managing $12.6 billion in assets. Under the agreement, ...

The TCW Group, Inc., a leading global asset manager, and Nippon Life Insurance Company, one of the world’s largest life insurance companies, today announced that Nippon Life intends to commit up to $3 ...

LEXINGTON, Mass., April 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Keros Therapeutics, Inc. (“Keros” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: KROS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and ...

Skillsoft Corp. SKIL announced a review of strategic alternativesforthe Global Knowledge (GK) business segment in the third ...

Today, BlackRock bolstered its liquid alternative platform with the launch of the iShares Systematic Alternatives Active ETF ( Nasdaq:IALT ), a multi-strategy alternative fund designed to deliver ...

The alternative and private capital asset management industry is growing strongly. From 2023 to 2028, PricewaterhouseCoopers expects alternative assets under management to grow by nearly $8 trillion.

Over the course of the next couple of months, I will take an in-depth look at alternative investments and the benefits, pitfalls and the role they play in asset allocations. In the second article of ...