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Alternative Investments: Beyond Stocks and Bonds


What 'alts' are, why institutions hold them, and how the market-agnostic hedge-fund mandate works. This path is the conceptual umbrella over Oxford Ledge's deeper alternative-asset paths -- Leveraged Buyout Analysis, Venture Capital, BDC Investing (private credit), Real Estate Investing, and Derivatives Beyond Options -- and threads a learner from the overview into that existing depth.

Before this course

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Understanding Valuation

Lessons in this course

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  1. 01What Alternative Investments Are
  2. 02Hedge Funds: The Market-Agnostic Mandate
  3. 03Commodities and Futures: The Storage-Cost Asset Class
  4. 04Infrastructure: The Long-Duration Real-Asset Class
  5. 05Crypto as an Alternative Asset Class
  6. 06Alternatives in a Portfolio: Sizing the Allocation
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