Financial terminology: What is alternative investment?

The so-called alternative investment refers to investing in financial and physical assets other than traditional stocks, bonds and cash, such as real estate, securitization assets, hedge funds, private equity funds, commodities, works of art and so on. Among them, securitization assets include bonds based on subprime mortgages and derivative financial products of these bonds.

"Alternative investment" refers to investment methods other than public trading platforms such as stocks, bonds and futures, including private equity and venture capital.

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