Alternative investments are incredibly popular lately. That’s fundamentally because of investor desire to harness outperformance, but also because people are looking for uncorrelated returns to protect against another stock market crash like we saw in 2000 or 2008.
Decades ago, the ideal portfolio mix touted by investment advisors was 60% stocks and 40% bonds. More recently that school of thought has changed, with some advocating for a heavier allocation to stocks given the need to focus on growth over income – and the last decade of disappointing bond market performance from both a capital gains and income perspective. But if you don’t like bonds and you don’t trust stocks, then where can you turn?
The answer: alternative investments that include… Here’s what these alternatives have to offer, and how you can attempt to cash in.
This post originally appeared at U.S. News & World Report.