A case of having to grin and bear it?

Managers and investors have been flocking to a raft of conferences this year all over the world that have focused on alternative investments. At the International Investment conferences in South Africa, Geneva and Dubai, ways to make money by non-traditional means were the main talking points. And it's not all talk either ' Close Asset Management has launched a healthcare and leisure property fund, Gartmore is considering launching its first retail fund of hedge funds next year and the alternative investment players continue to churn out new launches every week. But what, on the surfa...