By Brian M. Reiser Alternative investments are investments in asset classes that differ from traditional investment vehicles. Traditional investment vehicles include stocks, bonds and cash. Alternative investment classes include things like hedge funds, private equity, real assets and venture capital.
About Alternative Investments
The appeal of alternative investments is that they help you diversify your portfolio beyond the normal investment classes. They also have the potential to generate outsized returns compared with stocks and bonds.
On the other hand, these potential outsized returns to do not come for free. Instead, they have a substantial amount of risk. Investors need to determine whether the risk is worth the …read more
