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  1. 7 de mar. de 2024 · 07 Mar 2024. Alternative investment structures are complex due to the illiquidity, complexity, and long-term nature of these investments. These structures are designed to bridge potential gaps between manager and investor interests. They explicitly address the roles and responsibilities of both parties to mitigate these gaps.

  2. In this Refresher Reading, learn how to describe types and categories of alternative investments; characteristics of direct investment, co-investment, and fund investment methods; and commonly used investment and compensation structures.

  3. 1.2. An Overview of Alternative Assets There is no uniform definition of alternative investments or definitive list of alternative assets. This book examines the four broadest and largest categories of alternative investments: hedge funds, private equity, real assets, and struc-tured products. Hedge Funds.

  4. This reading is organized as follows. Section 2 describes alternative investments’ basic characteristics and categories, general strategies of alternative investment portfolio managers, the role of alternative investments in a diversified portfolio, and investment structures used to provide access to alternative investments. Sections 3

  5. help distinguish alternative investments from traditional investments: (1) regulatory factors, (2) structuring, (3) trading strategies, (4) compensation structures, (5) institutional factors, (6) information asymmetries, (7) incomplete markets, and (8) innovation.

  6. Investing in alternatives requires special- ized knowledge. Alternative investments typically rely on more complex and richer compensation structures than traditional investments in order to better align manager and investor incentives over longer periods.