Assuming the basket clause expansion had led to a full 5 percent boost in such investments across the board, it would have shifted at least $ 21 billion
more into alternative investments for all the pension funds combined, based on their 2013 values.
But for those that
bought into the alternative investments craze, the idea of invest for forever must at least be tempered into something like 20 % of our investments exist to buffer the next 5 years, and the other 80 % can be invested to the infinite horizon (maybe).
Drastic manipulation of government currencies by Venezuela and India, have forced consumers to look
into alternative investment forms, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, in order to preserve their financial assets.
Originally most equity investments were made with an eye towards how much income they would pay to the stock holder; today Dividend paying stocks (or ETFs or Mutual Funds) play that role along with Fixed Income (Bond / Debt) investments and increasingly more sophisticated investors are
looking into Alternative Investments («Alts»
In order to rebalance their portfolios, large and small institutions are moving some of those gains out of equities and
into alternative investments (such as VC deals).
Explore Income Generating Investments: Originally most equity investments were made with an eye towards how much income they would pay to the stock holder; today Dividend paying stocks (or ETFs or Mutual Funds) play that role along with Fixed Income (Bond / Debt) investments and increasingly more sophisticated investors are looking
into Alternative Investments («Alts» include private equity, hedge funds, managed futures, real estate, commodities and derivatives contracts).
One such model shifts money from stock funds (down to 22 percent)
into alternative investments (33 percent), fixed - income (29 percent) and cash (16 percent).