The Little Book of Alternative Investments: Reaping Rewards by Daring to Be Different (Hardcover)

Introduction: Are You Alternative? Dare to Expose Yourself.

Chapter One: Everything You Know Is Wrong: Classify Your Investments the Alternative Way.

Chapter Two: Efficient Market Theory and Its Discontents: Out with the Old, In with the New—Overhauling the 60/40 Portfolio.

Chapter Three: Collectibles as Investments: Beauty in the Eye of the Marketplace.

Chapter Four: More Alternatives We Don't Love: The Elephant's Graveyard of Financial Products.

Chapter Five: Conventional Alternatives I—Commodities: To Make a Killing, Take Out a Contract.

Chapter Six: Conventional Alternatives II—Real Estate: In Real Estate We Trust.

Chapter Seven: The Ultimate Alternative Investments: Hedge Fundamentals.

Chapter Eight: So Why Invest in Hedge Funds?: Okay, We Lied.

Chapter Nine: A Field Guide to Hedge Funds, Part One: The Long and the Short of It.

Chapter Ten: A Field Guide to Hedge Funds, Part Deux: Arbitrage, et al.

Chapter Eleven: One- Fund Solutions: Destroy All Replicants—or Not?

Chapter Twelve: Hedge Funds Pigs in Mutual Fund Blankets: The Mutual Fund Beauty Pageant Begins.

Chapter Thirteen: Adding Alternative Investments to Your Portfolio: Finding Your Portfolio's G-Spot.

Conclusion: Quest into the Unknown.

Appendix: Fundamentals.

Acknowledgments.

About the Authors.