Five strategies to help spooked investors
As soon as the dust started to clear after the 2008 financial crisis, a lot of investors learned the hard way that their portfolios weren't nearly as diversified as they should have been.
That reality, which is still present to a large degree across multiple asset classes, has financial advisers looking in the direction of alternatives for non-correlated performance.
Investors aren't looking for alternatives to help them sound impressive at cocktail parties or to squeeze a few more percentage points out of a hot sector. Right now, investors are looking for more ways to manage the risk that has become so relentless over the past few years.
[Story by InvestmentNews senior editorJeff Benjamin]