The market convention is for alternatives to mean every investment category except long-only, publicly traded stocks and bonds.
The performance of alternative investments is usually not correlated with that of other asset classes and may potentially offer superior returns.
Property, venture capital, private equity, commodities and hedge funds are all classified as alternative investments.
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