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  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    edited 23 September 2020 at 8:14PM
    I would be very careful about anything “alternative”. Requires experience and deep understanding of a whole range of issues like liquidity and all the hidden costs. Some instruments are very complicated and require you to read and understand a lot of small print. 
    There's an array of listed equities available without needing to consider anything esoteric. Commodities and property being obvious candidates. I doubt many investors fully read company accounts before making a share purchase.  ;)
  • [Deleted User]
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    edited 24 September 2020 at 1:06AM
    I would be very careful about anything “alternative”. Requires experience and deep understanding of a whole range of issues like liquidity and all the hidden costs. Some instruments are very complicated and require you to read and understand a lot of small print. 
    There's an array of listed equities available without needing to consider anything esoteric. Commodities and property being obvious candidates. I doubt many investors fully read company accounts before making a share purchase.  ;)
    You are buying commodities (shares of commodity companies) and property (REITs) if you buy a typical index. That’s not “alternative”. If you want to buy futures you need yo really know what you are doing and it only ever makes sense as insurance. Actual non-REIT property... search this forum. Lots of people have not read the small print. 
    Venture capital has been popular. A bit of a bubble, I think.  Too easy to “generate value” overnight by taking a company of the stock market and into “Venture capital”. 

    Prefs... I bought Pref shares in March because they were decimated and valuation made no sense short of half the banks going bankrupt.  That was a lot of work over a period of several years and small print reading as well as talking to the experts to understand. Complicated. I got lucky. 
    And buying shares of individual companies without reading statements isn’t smart. Everyone can make money in a bull market but what happens next? 
  • vulcanrtb
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    Stock app on the phone is very green today  B)
  • swindiff
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    The 3 funds I hold within the DC part of my work pension are now 10%, 12% and 27% up on what they were 12 months ago and they are all higher than they were immediately before the Coronavirus slump.
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