Business Desk 
Old Mutual Investment Group (OMIG) has rolled out an alternative investment product targeting pensioners seeking to diversify their investments and gain long-term returns.
The investments encompass non-traditional assets such as Private Equity, Agri-Funds, Private Debt Funds, REITS, Impact Funds, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds, Art and Antiques, Derivatives, and Commodities among others.
“Pension schemes by their nature have longer term obligations and by extension more patient capital which is ideal for generating sustainable long term superior returns from Alternative Investments like infrastructure,” OMIG Managing Director Anthony Mwithiga said.
“We have done well in investing in traditional asset classes like listed shares of bonds and public markets but it’s time to diversify by focusing on Alternative Investments while not forgetting the traditional assets,” said Mwithiga.
Other benefits include enhancing investment returns by increasing investment performance within acceptable risk tolerance levels, reducing the volatility of portfolio returns and enhancing diversification by lowering concentration risk and returns correlation to public markets.
Old Mutual Investment Group (OMIG) Our range of local and global investments is managed by specialist investment teams and span the risk/return spectrum across fundamental, quantitative and liability driven investment capabilities. They are also market leaders in offering South African institutional investors access to our Listed Equity Stewardship services.
Investing responsibly enables OMIG pursue superior, risk-adjusted returns for our clients.
We do this through integrating material environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities into all our investment decisions.Its active stewards of the assets that manages on behalf of our clients, and offer a range of ethical and green economy products. In addition, we are signatories to the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAMI) and are committed to the same net zero goal (within the context of a just transition).
