At Pyxis Investment Management we continuously scrutinise our strategies and work at incorporating new information into our investment views, where the situation has changed or new information has become available. Although we are not active traders, but rather long-term investment managers, we are active thinkers and attempt to pre-empt scenarios – no matter how far fetched they may appear.

By introducing alternative investments to a portfolio, one can generate almost the same level of expected return as a portfolio that does not have alternative investments exposure, but with significantly reduced expected risk (or volatility of returns). In this article, Henk Myburgh, CFA, explores the role of alternative investments in a portfolio.

Hedge funds aren’t just suitable for the high-flyers we see in movies like The Wolf of Wall Street. In this article, Henk Myburgh, CFA, introduces hedge funds as an alternative investment solution.