Technology offers fascinating perspectives for the asset management industry. These include tokenisation, the process of creating a digital representation of non-digital assets on a blockchain.
Co-authored by specialists from our digital transformation and private debt and real assets teams along with the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) and Hong Kong-based tokenisation platform Liquefy, this new research paper explores the application of tokenisation in enabling investors to gain fractional ownership of alternative asset classes.
Tokenisation could contribute to addressing some of the inherent challenges – for both investors and asset managers – of the alternative asset classes by:
Tokenisation of Alternative Investments is our contribution to the debate about the potential future applications of digital technologies in asset management.
Watch the video with author Emmanuelle Pecenicic on Tokenisation of Alternative Investments
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Some emerging markets offer less security than the majority of international developed markets. For this reason, services for portfolio transactions, liquidation and conservation on behalf of funds invested in emerging markets may carry greater risk.
