Alternative investments encompass a wide range of investment opportunities that are outside of the mainstream. As a result, they may offer more attractive returns than, or strong diversification from, traditional assets such as stocks, bonds or property.

Man Investments specialises in hedge funds, pooled investment vehicles that use a wide range of trading strategies designed to deliver returns that are largely independent of the broader market.

For instance, hedge fund managers employ strategies that aim to take advantage of pricing anomalies between related securities, engage in momentum investing to capture market trends, or apply their expert knowledge of markets and industries to capture profit opportunities that arise from special situations.

The ability to use derivatives, arbitrage techniques and, importantly, short selling - selling assets that one does not own in the expectation of buying them back at a lower price - affords hedge fund managers rich possibilities to generate growth in falling, rising and range-bound markets.