Russell Investments Survey: Alternatives become mainstream

Pension funds, endowments and foundations that responded to a recent survey across the world are forecasting that over the next two years they will dedicate an even larger slice of their total investment portfolio to private equity, hedge funds and real estate, according to the eighth global report on alternative investing released this week by Russell Investments.

As a percentage of total fund assets, institutional investors in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia expect increases in all of these alternative investments, with the one exception of Australian institutional investors keeping their mean strategic asset allocation to hedge funds steady. (Read more..)

Source :The Hedgeweek