Firms benefit from using alts, ESG both here and abroad

Kimberly Flynn, managing director for alternative investments at XA Investments, discusses how money managers benefit from opening London-based unit investment trusts -- roughly the equivalent of a US-based closed-end fund -- and how the strategies have synergies, especially with illiquid alternatives, that are making for new and interesting investments, notably right now in the development of ESG-based infrastructure funds.