Alternatives Watch is a daily news platform that covers the rapidly evolving world of alternative investments geared toward institutional investors. We cover investor mandate activity as well as manager news across private markets including hedge fund, private equity, private credit, infrastructure and real estate. With thousands of investment strategies to choose from with billions of dollars up for grabs, our aim is to give the most accurate and timely snapshot of the most innovative and entrepreneurial segment of asset management.
Susan Barreto, Editor
Susan Barreto is an award-winning journalist who has worked for a number of global financial publications including Pensions & Investments, HFM Week, Absolute Return, InvestHedge and Lipper HedgeWorld. Much of her career has been covering the global finance industry with an institutional investment focus covering pensions, endowments, foundations and family offices for more than two decades. She has covered hedge fund strategies most recently as Editor-at-Large for HFM Global.
Craig Allen, Commercial Director
Craig Allen is the founder of Allen & Associates, a research-driven financial communications consulting firm. The firm’s aim is to build impactful communications programs for financial services firms with a distinct focus on ESG..
Nancy Valiakis, Contributor
Nancy Vailakis is a 16 year veteran of the alternative asset management industry, having held prior investor relations roles at Cerberus Capital Management and BlueMountain Capital Management. Vailakis holds an MBA in Finance from the NYU Stern School of Business.
Christopher Faille, Contributor
Christopher Faille has written on a variety of legal, regulatory, and financial issues for decades. He is the author of “The Decline and Fall of the Supreme Court” (1995), for example, and the coauthor, with David O’Connor, of “Basic Economic Principles” (2000). He was an early reporter with Lipper HedgeWorld and has contributed to Forbes and to the Hedge Fund Law Report.
