Alternative Investments 101: What Every Sophisticated Investor Should Know

For decades, alternative investments were the exclusive domain of institutional investors. That is changing rapidly.

The term "alternatives" encompasses private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, private credit, real assets, and structured products.

What unites these asset classes is their lower correlation to public markets.

Private equity has delivered the strongest long-term returns of any major asset class over the past three decades.

The most critical factor in alternative investing is manager selection.