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Deleted_User said: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.1
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Thrugelmir said:Deleted_User said: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.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?0
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Stock app on the phone is very green today1
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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.0
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