Alternatives

Alternative investments can help diversify portfolios by providing exposure to assets and return drivers that may behave differently from traditional equities and fixed income. Examples include private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real estate, hedge funds and digital assets. These investments can offer access to additional sources of return, income and risk profiles, helping investors build more resilient portfolios across different market environments.

LSEG supports a broad range of alternative asset classes, including:

• Private equity and venture capital investments in private companies
• Private credit and syndicated loan markets
• Infrastructure assets such as transportation, utilities, communications and energy networks
• Real estate, including global listed property markets
• Hedge funds and alternative investment strategies
• Digital assets, including cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets

Through data, indices, analytics and market infrastructure solutions, LSEG helps investors access intelligence, benchmark performance and navigate increasingly diverse alternative investment markets.

LSEG private market data provides comprehensive coverage of private companies, funds, investments, fundraising activity, transactions and performance. Investors can use the data to research private equity and venture capital opportunities, evaluate private credit markets, monitor fundraising trends and compare fund performance. By combining proprietary content, strategic partner datasets and market intelligence, LSEG helps investors identify opportunities, analyse market dynamics and monitor investments throughout the investment lifecycle.

LSEG also supports the evolving private markets landscape through FTSE StepStone private markets indices. Developed in partnership with StepStone, these indices are designed to bring greater transparency, consistency and benchmarking capabilities to private asset classes, helping investors better understand and measure segments of the market that have historically been more difficult to track. As private markets continue to grow and become more integrated within institutional portfolios, robust benchmarks can support performance evaluation, portfolio construction and strategic decision making.

Real estate indices provide transparent and consistent benchmarks for measuring the performance of listed property markets worldwide. They can include sectors such as residential, industrial, office, retail, healthcare and logistics real estate. Investors use these benchmarks to evaluate portfolio performance, compare strategies, support asset allocation decisions and gain insight into trends across global listed real estate markets.

Many investors access listed real estate through Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), which provide exposure to income producing property assets through publicly traded securities. Through its long standing partnerships with Nareit and EPRA, FTSE Russell provides widely used benchmarks that help investors measure and analyse listed real estate and REIT markets across the United States, Europe and globally. These indices support performance benchmarking, product development and research across the global listed real estate ecosystem.

Infrastructure indices help investors measure and benchmark exposure to companies and assets that provide essential services and facilities. Examples include airports, toll roads, railways, ports, electricity transmission networks, renewable energy infrastructure and telecommunications towers. Investors use infrastructure indices for performance measurement, portfolio construction, strategic asset allocation and the creation of investment products focused on infrastructure opportunities.