The Alternative Answer - The Nontraditional Investments That Drive the World's Best Performing Portfolios

Introduction

We’ve been taught that the investing universe is made up of stocks, bonds, and maybe some real estate. But elite investors know those categories represent only a fraction of the real possibilities . . . and that by broadening their choices they can, and do, dramatically improve their total returns while simultaneously reducing their risks of big losses. That the rest of us didn’t even know about these “alternative investments” hardly mattered, because we couldn’t invest in them anyway. That has changed. Today nearly all investors should be expanding their investment horizons to profit from these new opportunities . . . and also to protect themselves from the inevitable next major market shock. That’s what this book is about.

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