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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...
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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