Alternative investments are comprised of a wide range of investment vehicles and strategies that fall outside the traditional equity, fixed-income and cash investments.
Investment in an alternative product is a trade-off of market returns for manager skill in the pursuit of investment returns. Employing a variety of approaches to make money, alternative investment managers often have more flexibility than traditional money managers. Returns from alternative investments are typically display low correlation and sometimes no correlation to traditional stock and bond market movements.
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