Asian asset owners discuss their search for niche alts

Across Asia, institutional investors have been opening their minds to investing possibilities in niche alternative asset classes, as equity valuations continue to trade at gravity-defying highs, and traditional bond yields remain tight.  The need has taken asset owners of all types into unusual instruments.   Hong Kong-based insurer FWD is one such company. Chief investment officer Paul Carrett told AsianInvestor that he had eyeballed this area for opportunities, although had ye…