● ANTs: Using Alternative and Non-Traditional Investments to Allocate Your Assets in an Uncertain World
By Dr. Bob Froehlich
Excerpt via publisher, John Wiley
There is clearly overwhelming evidence that a large percentage of a portfolio’s performance is determined by the percentage of money that an investor places in stocks, bonds, and alternative and non-traditional assets. Then to a much lesser extent, the performance of a portfolio is affected by the individual’s investment selection within those asset classes. The purpose of this book is to help you decide how much of that important 90 percent portion of your portfolio should be allocated to alternative and nontraditional asset classes.
When most individual investors thought of asset allocation, they simply thought of the big three: stocks, bonds, and cash. The reason was that most individual investors really only had these choices available to them. Not so anymore. Individual investors now have the opportunity to invest just like the big institutional investors by having exposure to alternative and non-traditional asset classes as well.
