Every summer my family and I go on a vacation to the beach. While there, my wife buys a big jigsaw puzzle for us to work on. Every year, we feel overwhelmed immediately after she dumps out all 1,000 pieces.
That daunting feeling is similar to what many advisors and investors feel when they look at the myriad alternative investment offerings available today: “How am I ever going to figure this out and put all the pieces together?”
When building our puzzle, my family’s first step is to sort and organize all the pieces. Once that’s done, it becomes much easier to identify where each one fits in the bigger picture. I recommend a similar approach toward alternative investments. Specifically, the first step is to organize and align the various alternative strategies with specific investment objectives.
Read the rest of “How to Approach the Alternative Investments Puzzle” to learn how to organize and align investment objectives with alternative investments.
Walter Davis is an Alternatives Investment Strategist at Invesco.
