RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Alternatives: <em>How? How Much? Why?</em>
JF The Journal of Wealth Management
FD Institutional Investor Journals
SP 49
OP 61
DO 10.3905/jwm.2016.19.3.049
VO 19
IS 3
A1 Javier Estrada
YR 2016
UL https://pm-research.com/content/19/3/49.abstract
AB Alternatives have become an important asset for institutional investors, and more recently also for individual investors. Many alternatives are easily investable nowadays, and the focus of this article is on two of the most widely used, namely, gold and real estate investment trusts (REITs), representing exposure to commodities and real estate. The evidence in this article shows that these alternatives 1) belong to the optimal portfolios of investors under very different optimization criteria, 2) generally increase risk-adjusted returns given three different definitions of risk, and 3) are more effective at reducing risk than they are at enhancing returns.TOPICS: Commodities, real estate, mutual funds/passive investing/indexing, performance measurement