Tag: alternative investment

  • Why These Alternative Investments are Risky

    Here’s a look at three of the more risky alternative investments: Virtual Currencies — Virtual currencies like Bitcoin can look promising, and they’re novel enough that young investors may consider them attractive. However, it’s not likely that these currencies will ever replace national currencies entirely. They’re also not issued by any bank, nor do they have…

  • Growing Popularity for “Alternative” Investment

    For the average middle-class citizen investment opportunities in well-developed countries can be limited. Often investment regulations prevent even the most solvent upper middle-class citizens from investing in anything more than stocks and bonds. Often offshore investments seem intimidating and are not legal to market in many countries with high-tax bases. Private banking can require exorbitant…

  • Madness in Markets

    Madness in Markets: Coming soon to an Emerging Market near you At no other time in history has a deeper investigation of our investment portfolios made better sense than today. The last four years have brought forth many surprises for almost all types of investors. It is common wisdom that no one can take the…