Alternative Alternatives: Risk, Returns and Investment Strategy
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Alternative Alternatives Risk, Returns and Investment Strategy

By Sona Blessing
John Wiley & Sons April 2011

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ISBN-13
9780470683965
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication
April 2011
Format
Hardback , 264 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In the aftermath of the financial crisis, investors are searching for new opportunities and products to safeguard their investments for the future. Riding high on the wave of new financial opportunities are Alternative Alternatives (AA). However, there is a dearth of information on what Alternative Alternatives are, how they work, and how they can be profited from.

The book defines what Alternative Alternatives, based on research and the following hypothesis: If the source (origin) of the risk lies outside of the financial markets, then it should be insulated from the vagaries of those markets. The book identifies and examines such and other unique, idiosyncratic, and difficult to replicate sources of risk - assets and strategies. The recent credit and sovereign debt crisis have served to defend the hypothesis and have upheld the conclusion that alternative alternative assets and strategies offer a risk-return profile that is distinct to those offered by traditional and main stream hedge fund strategies. These strategies include timberland investing, insurance risk transfer, asset/loan based lending (aviation, shipping, trade, entertainment, litigation financing etc), collectables and extraction strategies such as volatility and behaviour finance.

This book will be a one stop resource to the new investment class known globally as Alternative Alternatives (AA) and will provide a comprehensive but accessible introduction to these assets. It provides an in-depth analysis of the assets and strategies which will leave investors with everything they need to identify and allocate to the best AA for them. It reviews the asset on a standalone basis, providing an explanation of the product, its characteristics, a SWOT analysis, and details its risk/reward drivers. The book also looks at how to integrate the asset within a portfolio - its peculiarities, the challenges and the constraints of each. Next, the book shows how Alternative Alternatives are used in the real world, how they are implemented, and the results that they have achieved. Finally, the book looks at the scope, scalability and prospects for each asset in the future.

 

 

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

A Note on How to Use This Book.

Introduction.

Epilogue.

1 Timberland.

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Statistics on Investable Timberland.

1.3 Asset Characteristics.

1.4 Investment Drivers.

1.5 Return Drivers.

1.6 Perceived Risk.

1.7 Real Risks.

1.8 Measuring Risk and Returns: Science, Art, 'Boots on the Ground'.

1.9 Investment Objective.

1.10 Investment Strategy.

1.11 In Practice.

1.12 Country Case Studies.

1.13 Species Case Study.

1.14 Emergence and Outlook.

1.15 2010 And Beyond.

1.16 Opportunities and Challenges Facing Timberland Investors.

1.17 Conclusion.

2 Insurance Linked Risk Transfer.

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Classification.

2.3 Asset Characteristics.

2.4 Risks.

2.5 Return Drivers.

2.6 Constraints.

2.7 The Players.

2.8 Evolution.

2.9 Non-Life Insurance Linked Risk Transfer.

2.10 In Practice.

2.11 Life Insurance Linked Risk Transfer.

2.12 Pandemic-related Insurance Investing – Extreme Mortality Risk.

3 Asset-Based Lending.

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 Aviation Finance, Loan-Based Lending, Leasing.

3.3 Ship Financing, Leasing, Investing.

3.4 Trade Finance.

3.5 Litigation led Investing.

3.6 Lending Against Hospital Receivables.

3.7 Film Financing.

3.8 Music Investing.

3.9 Appendix.

4 Collectables.

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Investing in Art.

4.3 Case Study Series (with Philip Hoffman, The Fine Art Fund Group).

4.4 Investing in Photography.

4.5 Investing in Wine.

4.6 Investing in Vintage Cars.

5 Extraction Strategies.

5.1 Volatility Investing.

5.2 Behaviour Finance.

6 Place in a Portfolio.

Further Reading.

Index.

 

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