Category III: Alternatives

IFM Investors — Neil Doherty, Head of Infrastructure

IFM Investors is positioning battery energy storage as a standalone infrastructure asset class, investing via portfolio companies in the battery energy storage systems (BESS) sector across Europe and North America. The move sets a marker for the next generation of infrastructure investments in the context of the energy transition. → finews article

Maverix Securities — Giuliano Glocker, Co-CEO

Maverix makes one of the central bottlenecks of the AI era investable: electricity. The actively managed certificate (AMC) bundles the structurally rising demand for power, the massive build-out of data centers, and the growing constraints on existing grid infrastructure into a single tradable vehicle — making electricity scarcity visible not merely as a risk, but accessible as a productive real asset for investors seeking exposure to the infrastructure needs of the digital economy without taking on direct project risk. → finews article

Maximon / Longevity Gstaad Conference — Tobias Reichmuth, Co-Founder

Maximon and the Longevity Investors Conference in Gstaad jointly stand for the establishment of longevity as a standalone investment theme: Maximon as a venture builder investing purposefully in longevity startups, and the conference as a high-caliber investor forum that lends the theme international visibility and institutional credibility. For investors, this creates an orienting framework for a market segment that, according to the WHO, accounts for more than 10 percent of global GDP but is still barely represented in portfolio-ready vehicles. → finews article

Moevenpick Wein — Nikolas von Haugwitz, CEO

With the acquisition of Liquid Grape, Moevenpick Wein brings the expertise of a fine wine investment specialist into an institutionally recognized Swiss brand house. The goal is to position fine wine as a structured asset class alongside other collectibles such as art or watches. The transaction signals that liquid fine wine markets — with their low correlation to traditional asset classes — are finding their way into professionally managed portfolios. → finews article (in German)

Partners Group — David Layton, CEO

Partners Group and BBVA have launched an evergreen fund for private markets, making illiquid private market investments accessible to a broader investor universe for the first time — without a fixed term and with lower minimum investment thresholds. The open-ended fund structure significantly reduces the traditional barriers to entry for private equity, opening one of the best-performing asset classes of the past decade to investors who were previously excluded for lack of institutional access. → finews article (in German)

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