alternatives Watch News Service
Some business publishers push you to get multiple subscriptions, each one covering a different alternative investment strategy.
The Alternatives Watch (AW) news service doesn’t play this game. We give you a wide view of the alternative investment industry, with coverage of five key asset classes and their investors.
What We Cover
Private Equity
Hedge Funds
Private Credit
Real Estate/
Infrastructure
Unique Content
Our team of experienced reporters also brings you exclusive feature stories, interviews with leading and emerging industry voices, and big-picture looks at emerging trends such as ESG, fintech, SPACs and crypto funds.

Trend-following ‘first mover’ Quest Partners embraces volatility surge
With a track record stretching back more than 20 years, short-term trend-following hedge fund Quest Partners’ “volatility breakout” investment process is built to capture positive

A balancing act: U.S. managers eye a new structure in a new jurisdiction
Earlier this year, Jersey Finance unveiled a new LLC structure aimed at strengthening the territory’s profile as an attractive jurisdiction for U.S. alternative fund managers.

Blockchain investors offer a glimpse of the future of finance
For institutional and individual investors, blockchain may offer a way to invest in digital assets but is likely to gain more importance as a dedicated asset class in the years to come.
Research + Actionable Data
Our data- and analysis-driven unit, AW Research, compiles the facts and figures behind the larger trends within alternative asset management in exclusive articles and charts. The AW Research Deal Watch tracks daily deal activity across alts classes, while the AW Research Monthly Scorecards track data on manager and investor activity, displayed on easy to read tables.

The great PE slowdown gains momentum
Private equity capital deployment has slowed even as dry capital available continues to rise, according to our analysis of first-quarter stats on publicly traded private equity firms.

PE makes up 73% of allocations to alts in March
The world’s largest investors remained active with over $18 billion in commitments to alternative investment strategies in March, according to AW Research.

June begins with $2.7bn in new alts deal activity
June started out with a big day for take-private transactions and a total of about $2.7 billion in newly announced private market transactions.
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Annual
- Everything in Monthly PLUS:
- Access to articles and data from AW Research
- Discounts on advertisement and story reprints
- AW Annual Investor Compendium – our comprehensive guide to investor activity, with a ranking of the most active investors for the year and profiles of the top global allocators