Studies Reveal Growing Hunger For Alternatives

Among the seven nations with the world’s largest pools of pension assets, alternatives such as private equity accounted for 19 percent of allocations in 2012, according to recent study of global pensions from Towers Watson, the financial consultancy. In the United States, alternative assets accounted for an even higher portion of assets—20 percent. That represents a huge increase in alternatives overall, which accounted for just 5 percent of all pension assets—globally and in the U.S.—as recently as 1995, according to the firm.

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