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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

Precious metals like gold and silver have been sought after for centuries as a store of value and a hedge against economic uncertainties. Additionally, agricultural products like grains and livestock can provide exposure to the ever-growing global need for food and resources.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

Precious metals like gold and silver have been sought after for centuries as a store of value and a hedge against economic uncertainties. Additionally, agricultural products like grains and livestock can provide exposure to the ever-growing global need for food and resources.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. And then the interesting thing is before we really saw that the unwinding of risk, I mean, you saw credit spreads widen, right?

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. SEIDES: Yeah, well, it’s a huge problem and it’s an intractable problem because of the way incentive systems work in the asset management industry, everyone across the food chain of capital is reporting to somebody else.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

Their mainstay financial services practice, which was banking and equities, fell off a cliff. Think of these guys that we work with as, I don’t know, the biggest franchise owners of, you know, those fast food chains in the space. And you basically could just sort of do fine with very lazy risk management.

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Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

You saw it in the financial services sector. In 2006, ’07, ’08, you saw the financial crisis. You see these things before they start to show up in the economic data. So we share themes and we share these economic signals. You know, economically, that’s a big thing. We find great management teams.

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