Why should I consider alternative investments?
The reason you might want to consider alternative investments as part of a investment strategy is because alternative investments tend to react to market conditions differently than our traditional investment stocks and bonds. Many alternative investments have a high expectation of return, like you would have with a stock. If you can have two investments with high expected returns, but they are going to earn those returns over different periods of time, it provides diversification to the portfolio and we are then managing our risk