Guiding you through market ups and downs

Financial markets are highly complex. From economic shifts to geopolitical tensions, a wide range of factors can trigger sharp market movements - and understanding how different asset classes will respond is not always straightforward.

This is where alternative investments can play a powerful role. Adding them may enhance your portfolio’s stability, reduce its overall risk, and improve its risk-return profile. Our in-depth research shows how alternatives can add resilience – especially when markets get rough.

As one of the few multi-specialists in Europe, with over 25 years of experience in alternative assets, we, at Candriam, offer a wide array of alternative investment solutions tailored to your unique needs, goals, and risk appetite. Our experts actively monitor all major global asset classes, aiming to uncover opportunities that can strengthen your portfolio—today and for the long term.

Because we understand how our strategies perform in different market environments, we are ready to support you through every phase of the cycle, with confidence and clarity.

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Steve Brument
Global Head of Alternative Investments
We are proud to offer a broad range of strategies that are regularly recognised by the industry. All of them were designed with the same objective: bring resilience and diversification to our clients’ portfolios.
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  • € 2.9 bn   Assets under Management
  • 11 Alternative strategies
  • +25 Years of experience
  • 31 Investment professionals

Market neutral strategies

Exploiting market opportunities in a broad investment universe in the aim to deliver steady returns regardless of the market direction 

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Long/short directional strategies

Taking directional positions in the market in the aim to turn both upward and downward market trends into positive returns

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Upside alpha strategies

Aiming to capture excess returns in stable or rising markets, while attempting to limit downside risk

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Multi-strategy alpha

Built to offer diversification and resilience by allocating assets across multiple alternative investment strategies

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  • Research Paper, Alternative Investments, Bertrand Dardenne

    Erschließen Sie das Potenzial von Fusionsarbitrage

    Merger Arbitrage ist eine ausgeklügelte Anlagestrategie, die bei Fusionen und Übernahmen die Preisdifferenz zwischen dem Aktienkurs eines Zielunternehmens auf dem Markt und dem Übernahmepreis ausnutzt.
  • Monthly Coffee Break, Alternative Investments

    Dancing on the ceiling*

    As Lionel Richie put it in his 1980’s hit, “What is happening here? Something’s going on that’s not quite clear.”
  • Research Paper, Alternative Investments, Pieter-Jan Inghelbrecht, Johann Mauchand, Steeve Brument

    Rückkehr zur Diversifizierung

    Wir haben die Allokation zwischen Aktien und Anleihen kürzlich analysiert und die Frage gestellt, 'Ist 40/30/30 das neue 60/40?' Nun, ja, wir denken schon. Unsere Analyse zeigt eine langfristige Korrelation zwischen Aktien und festverzinslichen Wertpapieren, die beängstigend nahe bei 1,0 liegt. Diese erhöhte Korrelation verändert die Wirksamkeit der traditionellen Portfoliokonstruktion grundlegend.
  • Alternative Investments

    It is a Vix world!

    Liberation Day was a shock for investors, causing a tremendous impact on financial markets. Hard-data economic indicators continue to hold up but are pointing to a deceleration.
  • Alternative Investments

    Tariffying Markets

    Markets remained volatile during the month of March. The primary concern isn’t the weakening economic fundamentals, but rather investors’ doubts about the credibility and stability of the U.S.
  • Alternative Investments

    The wind of change

    The global economy experienced a mild slowdown due to a lower contribution of services to the World PMI and lower consumer participation.

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