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Hold On… You Have No Alternative Investments In Your Portfolio? For many investors, 2022 has been a challenging and frustrating year, as persistently high inflation has resulted in an environment of quickly rising interest rates, leading to a “double-whammy” of twin selloffs across both stocks and bonds this year. After increasing more than 31% in 2019, 18% in 2020, and 28% last year, the S&P 500 (an often-cited proxy for the stock market) has declined more than 16% this year. And to make matters worse, the bond market, as measured by the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, has declined by more than 11%. Put differently, investing in conventional stock and bond asset classes has not worked very well so far in 2022. Not surprisingly, these declines have led to an increase in demand for “supplemental” investment opportunities outside of these traditional areas, and have led some people to ask themselves “Why are there are no alternative investments in my portfolio?”...