SPOTLIGHT

An advisor's guide to alternative investments

Boost your alternatives knowledge and discover how allocating to these investments may help strengthen your clients' portfolios.

Could alternatives uncover new opportunities for your clients?

Alternative investments can potentially expand your clients’ investment universe, enhance returns and income, and add diversification to portfolios. As alternative exposures become more accessible, it's a great time to expand your knowledge of this asset class.

24%
Average institutional investor alternatives allocation
6%
Average advisor-sold alternatives allocation

Educational insights: alternatives and beyond

Leverage Fidelity's resources to learn more about alternative investments and how they can potentially enhance your clients’ portfolios.
INVESTING IDEAS
Alternative investments and their roles in multi-asset class portfolios
Many investors look to alternatives to broaden the investment opportunity set and help enhance a portfolio's returns, manage downside risk, and improve diversification.
PRODUCT STRATEGY
Searching for yield
Learn more about the market tailwinds supporting direct lending.
RESEARCH
A study of allocations to alternative investments by institutions and financial advisors
Learn more about trends by segment and strategies regarding allocations to alternatives.
COMMENTARY
Demystifying the alternative investing landscape
Learn from a Fidelity panel of alternative investment professionals sharing their knowledge on opportunities and risks in nontraditional asset classes.
PRODUCT STRATEGY
Commercial real estate: It is more than just office
Explore how recent bank failures and rising interest rates have cast a shadow on the commercial real estate industry.
RESEARCH
Considerations when implementing alternative investments in multi-asset class portfolios
Utilize Fidelity’s framework for allocating to alternative investments based on proprietary research outlining suggested portfolio mixes across the liquidity spectrum.
PRODUCT STRATEGY
Preparing for a changing credit cycle
Uncover reasons why higher rates may eventually lead to increased distressed investment opportunities.
RESEARCH
Emerging opportunities in real estate debt
Commercial real estate fundamentals look healthy outside of the office sector while sentiment has been improving.
RESEARCH
Alternative risk premia: Building blocks for resilient portfolios
Explore how alternative risk premia offers potential for attractive and durable returns, and how they can be harvested through quantitative, rules-based, long-short investment strategies.
RESEARCH
Evaluating alternatives in multi-asset class portfolios
Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser explores the opportunities among alternative and public asset classes, highlights the critical importance of manager research, and shares an approach to due diligence for illiquid alternative strategies.
PRODUCT STRATEGY
Liquid alternatives: The power of equity options-based strategies
Thoughtfully designed and well-executed equity options-based strategies are outcome focused investments that allow investors to remain invested while mitigating downside risk, reducing volatility, or generating income.
INVESTING IDEAS
Convertible Arbitrage: Offering Niche Alpha and Diversification
Convertible arbitrage can offer asset allocators the opportunity to diversify traditional and alternative exposures, tap into idiosyncratic sources of alpha and potentially take advantage of market volatility.
Research
Alternative risk premia: Style selection for investment objectives
Fidelity’s ARP framework emphasizes construction of more focused peer groups of styles than are available in traditional ARP benchmarks to assess the risk and return profile of premia for use in portfolio design.
SPOTLIGHT
The advisor's guide to digital assets

With the entire industry around digital assets constantly evolving, it can be beneficial for your firm to be familiar with this innovative financial instrument.

PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION
Unlock portfolio insights

Explore current and previous portfolio construction data and stay up to date on the latest investment portfolio insights from Fidelity.

INVESTMENT SOLUTIONS
Check out more alternative investment strategies

Discover new investment opportunities with Fidelity’s expanding lineup of alternative investments.