The phrase "allocations to alternative" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks context.
It could be used in discussions about financial or resource distribution, but it needs to be part of a complete thought or sentence.
Example: "The allocations to alternative investments have increased this quarter."
Alternatives: "allocations to alternatives" or "funding for alternative options".
For most clients — whose net worth runs from $2 million to $4 million — they have increased cash positions and their allocations to alternative investment funds, including managed futures, which actively trade commodity, currency and financial futures contracts.
Over the past few years, high net-worth individuals have been adopting some of the investment and allocation practices similar to those pioneered by endowments, especially the inclusion of significant allocations to alternative asset classes.
The most significant trend over the past decade has been growth in allocations to alternative strategies, such as investments in hedge funds and private equity funds, especially among larger size institutions.
"The major universities pioneered thinking about, and making, allocations to alternatives, and the smaller endowments and foundations have followed," Mr. Hammond of TIAA-CREF said.
Allocations to alternatives declined in size as fund sizes declines, reaching 14percentt among institutions with assets under $25 million.
A survey of pension-fund managers by Citigroup, published this week, found that 85% of them plan to raise their allocation to "alternative" assets over the next three years, despite the market turmoil.
The $112.5 billion Texas Teacher's Retirement System, for example, announced in September that it would increase its allocation to alternatives to 29percentt from 8.5percentt over the next three years.
But in recent years a combination of poor stockmarkets and low bond yields have made alternatives fashionable.Since 1995 global pension funds have increased their portfolio allocation to alternatives from 5% to 19%.
Allocations from their portfolios to "alternative investments"—the category that covers most shadow loans remain small.
Government's allocation efforts increasingly directed to alternative care seem not to have turned automatically into better outcomes for children.
Based on our knowledge, there is no similar research which considered inter- and intra-cell movement, tools' changing, and route selection with respect to alternative routes, tools' allocation, and machines' reliability simultaneously.
