Financial advisers should consider allocating investors' assets to liquid alternative strategies in order to buffer their portfolios ahead of the Fed's possible rate hike in December, according to a panel of experts at the recently held fifth annual InvestmentNews Alternative Investments Conference in Miami. With quantitative easing expected to come to an end, panelists said they expect credit and interest-rate environments to become increasingly volatile. Since alternative products are designed to decrease the effects of market volatility, an increased allocation to alts may benefit a client's portfolio, attendees at the event were told.

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