Powering ahead

The mushrooming alternatives space includes infrastructure, where the reliable profits of utilities are proving highly attractive to investors

The market turbulence of the past few months has highlighted the need for investors to move beyond traditional equity and bond-only portfolios and seek alternative options in order to preserve, as well as grow their capital. The alternatives space has moved on rapidly over the past few years from being largely focused on commercial property and has mushroomed to include a wide range of asset classes, such as commodities, hedge funds and, of course, infrastructure funds, which have become increasingly accessible to the retail investor. In the current investment environment, companies w...