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title: Trends in Alternative Investments
description: Explore trends reshaping alternative investments. Discover actionable insights, investor strategies, and market intelligence for smarter decision-making.
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# Trends in Alternative Investments

 Measuring advisor and accredited investor interest in alternatives

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Trends in Alternative Investments provides insight into how advisors are using alternative investments and what they view as the common barriers to entry. It also dives into brand awareness, familiarity and aided consideration by sub-asset class for leading product providers within the alternatives market.

NEW THIS YEAR: Awareness and impression of recent high-profile partnerships among traditional and specialist alternative asset managers; advisor and client friction on attitudes toward performance, risk and liquidity perceptions of alternative investments; a deeper dive into most used advisor resources and how asset managers can help with advisor/client conversations.

## Value

**The report will enable subscribers to:**

**Project Future Growth**  
Measure current allocation to alternatives and forecast future use two years from now

**Assess Current Use**  
Uncover how advisors and investors access and allocate alternative investments across liquid, semi-liquid and illiquid investments

**Identify Barriers and Drivers**  
Understand the appeal and concerns advisors and investors voice toward alternative investments

## Methodology

- Web-based survey
- 600–650 registered financial advisors across five channels who have an active book of at least $5 million, with a median AUM of $100 million
- 3,500 affluent investors with $100,000+ in household investable assets, excluding primary real estate
- Representative samples allowing for subgroup analyses by key variables (advisors: channel and AUM, non-, light and heavy users of alternative investments; investors: generation and investor status (accredited, qualified, other)

## Areas of Inquiry

**Financial Advisors**

- Advisors’ use of alternative investments (AUM allocation and types of alternatives used)
- Allocation of alternatives within the portfolio and how these investments are assessed
- Barriers and accelerants to entry
- Asset manager brand section (awareness, familiarity and aided consideration by private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure)
- Deep dive into advisor conversations with clients (Where do they feel least prepared? Where do they go for information and education on alternative investments?)

**Affluent Investors**

- Profile of the accredited investor and qualified purchaser
- Investor interest in and usage of alternative investments (including attitudes toward)
- Interest in liquidity ranges (liquid, semi-liquid or illiquid)
- Vehicle and asset manager use
- Risk and return expectations

## Subscription Details

**Publication Date: April 2026  
Deliverables:**

- Printed report with product and brand analyses, commentary and strategic implications
- Custom data cuts and survey work by senior analysts available

## Investment: $30,000

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