Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Marguerita is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC), Retirement ...

Diversification is one of the golden rules of investment management. By building a portfolio of different-performing assets, such as alternatives, investors are better able to reduce risk and generate ...

The authors modeled a version of the Patient and Caregiver Support for Serious Illness alternative reimbursement structure for palliative care using data from the Statin Trial. Objectives: Patient and ...

The author owns shares in JG Boswell, Laurent-Perrier, Carlyle Group, Oaktree Capital and SLC Agricola. Anything investable that is not a stock, a bond or cash is commonly referred to as an ...

Comparing traditional vs. alternative investments makes it sound like you must choose one type. In reality, you don’t – each presents distinct advantages and disadvantages you can weigh based on your ...

Alternative investments are gaining traction. An estimated 80 percent of young investors are allocating more of their portfolios to investments that fall outside of the more classic categories like ...

We independently evaluate all of our recommendations. If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Learn what it takes to invest in alternative assets Michael Boyle is an experienced ...

The current condition of an ecological system is its state. Because , it is possible for them to occupy more than one state for a given set of environmental conditions. In other words, while a system ...

From 1876 to 1943, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a grand hotel, spa, and wellness center. He is perhaps better known for his invention of cornflakes, ...

In a recent series of cases, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) evaluated whether examples in a patent specification will support infringement of alternative embodiments. Two recent ...