FYI: In our previous article, we provided an overview of alternative assets and made the distinction between alternative investment strategies and alternative assets, or nontraditional assets. This latter category of investments has been available to investors for years, but in large part is mostly illiquid and sparingly used by individual investors (with the exception of gold and real estate) because of the difficulty moving funds in and out such investments. We review a collection of nontraditional assets below and acknowledge the growing attempts to offer more liquid instruments with market exposure to these assets. However, it is our opinion that these assets will ultimately represent a small portion of the overall allocation to alternative investments
Regards,
Ted
http://dailyalts.com/an-overview-of-nontraditional-assets/
