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Alternative Investment Solutions
Alternatives can sharpen returns, diversify risk, and introduce income profiles that traditional public markets do not always deliver. They can also go wrong fast if the investor underestimates liquidity, governance, or volatility.
FG Capital Advisors supports professional investors and sponsors with strategy framing across private equity, venture capital, selective crypto exposure, and income-focused approaches such as covered call ETFs. We also maintain an active investment focus in battery metals through our fund platform.
Request Alternatives ReviewWhat Counts As An Alternative In This Context
Alternative investments typically sit outside long-only public equities and vanilla fixed income. They can be used to pursue growth, cash yield, or strategic exposure to structural themes.
- Private equity and growth equity focused on operational value creation and control or influence rights.
- Venture capital targeting early-stage technology and platform expansion with higher failure rates and higher upside potential.
- Crypto and digital asset frameworks that require explicit risk controls, custody clarity, and regulatory awareness.
- Options-based income strategies, including covered call ETFs, designed to trade some upside for distributable yield.
The right mix depends on risk tolerance, time horizon, liquidity needs, and governance appetite.
Private Equity
Private equity is often the most structured alternative bucket for investors who want exposure to cash-flowing businesses, operational improvement, and strategic M&A.
- Suited for investors who can accept multi-year lockups and structured governance.
- Returns are driven by execution quality, margin expansion, and exit discipline.
- Risk is concentrated in underwriting assumptions, leverage management, and the sponsor’s ability to handle downturns.
The credibility of the operating plan matters as much as the headline IRR projections.
Venture Capital
Venture capital is a high-variance game. The winners can be massive. The median outcome can be mediocre or negative when selection discipline is weak.
- Best aligned with patient capital that expects long timelines to liquidity.
- Requires sharp thinking around product-market fit, distribution advantage, and endurance of unit economics.
- Portfolio construction matters since outcomes are power-law distributed.
A disciplined thesis and realistic follow-on funding plan reduce avoidable failure risk.
Crypto Exposure With Risk Discipline
Crypto can offer asymmetric upside and macro-hedge narratives, but it carries fast-moving regulatory risk, custody risk, and extreme drawdown potential.
- Appropriate only for investors who can tolerate high volatility and potential liquidity shocks.
- Risk controls should address custody, counterparty exposure, and the difference between tokens, protocols, and revenue-backed structures.
- A clear investment mandate is essential to avoid theme drift and speculation masquerading as strategy.
The best institutional frameworks treat crypto as a bounded allocation with explicit downside rules.
Covered Call ETFs
Covered call ETFs are an options-based income approach that can appeal to investors seeking yield and lower volatility in exchange for capped upside in strong bull markets.
- Useful in sideways or mildly bullish markets where option premiums can enhance total return.
- Less effective when markets trend strongly upward for long periods.
- Requires clarity on index exposure, distribution mechanics, and fee drag.
Our broader income and portfolio positioning framework can be reviewed here: https://www.fgcapitaladvisors.com/fixed-income.
Battery Metals As A Thematic Alternatives Focus
Energy transition supply chains create a distinct alternatives angle when paired with disciplined project selection and governance. FG Capital Advisors invests in battery metals assets through our fund platform, with a focus on sponsor-grade risk assessment and realistic development pathways.
- Development and growth-stage battery metals opportunities.
- Assets with credible permitting, offtake strategy, and cost control logic.
- Platform approaches where scale strengthens commercial leverage.
Learn more about our mandate at https://www.fgcapitaladvisors.com/batterymetals.
Common Use Cases For Professional Investors
Alternatives are rarely adopted for curiosity. They are typically chosen to solve specific portfolio problems.
- Seeking returns that are less correlated to public markets.
- Adding yield-enhancing strategies when traditional fixed income is unattractive on a risk-adjusted basis.
- Gaining strategic exposure to structural themes such as energy transition.
- Building a barbell approach that pairs stable income with high-upside growth buckets.
The trade-off is clear. More complexity and less liquidity in exchange for differentiated outcomes.
How FG Capital Advisors Supports Alternative Mandates
Our role is to help investors and sponsors frame alternatives in a structured, committee-ready way, with a focus on risk logic, thesis discipline, and alignment with real execution pathways.
- Strategy definition across growth, income, and thematic allocations.
- Risk and liquidity mapping tied to portfolio objectives.
- Sponsor-side modelling and investment narratives for private market raises.
- Investment focus alignment where our battery metals mandate may be relevant.
We prioritise clarity on what is investable now, what should be staged, and what needs stronger evidence before broad allocation.
Alternatives can be powerful when used for the right reason and sized correctly. Private equity and venture capital reward patient, disciplined underwriting. Crypto rewards risk control more than storytelling. Covered call ETFs can be a sensible income tool when expectations are realistic.
If you are exploring thematic and income allocations, review our platforms for deeper context. Battery metals investing: https://www.fgcapitaladvisors.com/batterymetals. Covered call and income framework: https://www.fgcapitaladvisors.com/fixed-income.
Submit Alternatives EnquiryDisclosure. FG Capital Advisors provides financial modelling, analytical, and advisory services. The firm does not originate, offer, or sell securities, loans, deposits, guarantees, or insurance products and does not accept client money. Any investment or strategy referenced on this page is described for commercial and professional context only. Nothing on this page is a recommendation or a solicitation to buy or sell any security, fund interest, token, derivative, or financial product. Any investment activity is undertaken with and through appropriately regulated entities under their own licences, terms, and documentation. All engagements with FG Capital Advisors are subject to internal approval, conflict checks, and applicable KYC and AML checks and sanctions screening where required, as well as the terms of a formal engagement letter.
