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Alternative strategies
Alternative investing includes alternative strategies that use sophisticated investment techniques, such as leverage, taking short positions and using derivatives. In general, alternative strategies are structured to hold a wide range of traditional and non-traditional financial assets, but they are managed using non-conventional methods.
For instance, leverage is the strategy of using borrowed money to potentially increase the return on a particular investment. Shorting is the ability to profit when the value of a given security declines. Derivatives are financial instruments whose value is linked to the price of a given underlying security, such as a stock.
Alternative strategies are powerful investment tools that can help an investor target certain risk-return characteristics. The goal is to generate a different pattern of risk and return in comparison to traditional investments – potentially even making profits when traditional markets or securities are declining in value.
Examples of alternative strategies:
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