The Search for Yield: Implications to Alternative Investments
2017
This paper reviews recent trends in alternative investments and their implications as the background for the Special Issue of the Journal of Empirical Finance on Alternative Investments. The historically low bond yields have brought new challenges to many investors in their search for yield, and led many of them to look outside traditional asset classes. The increased flows to alternative assets are motivated by their good performance and diversification benefits. Dynamic trading strategies used by hedge funds, and their increased presence in the financial markets are likely to have profound effects to financial market dynamics. Similarly, the large flows to commodities markets are likely to intensify the financialization of commodities market and its effects.
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