"Always" be on the lookout for alternative investments

Investors should ’always’ be looking for alternative investment opportunities, one sector commentator has asserted.

Responding to a reader’s question about the popularity of the alternative investment market in a column in the Montgomery Advertiser, John Norris stated that monitoring the market is a wise move, especially in the current economic climate.

He noted that gold is considered to be an alternative investment, despite the fact that it is ’almost the originally investment’.

Mr Norris explained that it gained alternative category status because investors either had to take physical possession of gold when pouring funds into it - which is not a particularly straightforward process - or market participants had to try the futures market.

’This made gold - strangely enough - an alternative investment,’ he concluded.

In related news, the Guardian recently reviewed the alternative investment market since 2000 and suggested that fine wine is the best performing alternative investment category of the past ten years.ADNFCR-2318-ID-19475892-ADNFCR