Past Events › Alternative Investments

This event will explore the growing litigation finance market and associated investment opportunities. The discussion will cover the origins of the litigation finance market, the size of the opportunity and various market dynamics.

The secondary market began in the 1980s as a method to provide liquidity to investors in illiquid private equity, and other pools of alternative assets. Secondary funds build exposure to illiquid portfolios by acquiring existing positions in single funds or a portfolio of funds from limited partners (“LPs”) seeking early liquidity often at a discount to recent valuations. Investors use these funds to rapidly build up exposure to diversified, seasoned positions in private equity, and other alternatives while, potentially, with shorter duration and lower correlation to investors’ existing portfolios.

If there is one fatal flaw that every investor needs to overcome, it's a poor mindset.  No matter how good their analysis or their framework, mistakes like chasing losses or trading based on ego threaten to wreck the results of even the smartest investor. So how can traders and investors limit their mistakes -- and perhaps take advantage of the psychological errors of others?

Macroeconomic shifts are expected to gain more strength in a new era of global central bank asset reduction and elevated geopolitical risks across the world. These changes are likely to have a direct impact on multi-asset class investing. In addition, the roles of traditional and non-traditional asset classes are likely to be questioned in this environment as investors continue to seek diversification benefits in a constantly evolving global investing landscape.

Niche Strategy Investing could be defined as any investment that doesn’t fit neatly into a defined category or traditional set of parameters. It requires unique expertise and sophistication to pursue it, to manage it and to evaluate it. It’s likely to involve investments that are harder to understand, complex, go against traditional norms/ trends and are often private and relatively illiquid.

Investors are facing off in the midst of the longest bull market in history. Accommodative monetary policy and an unprecedented period of easy money has led to companies taking on record levels of debt. Times like these leave distressed credit investors eager for what is to come.