10 Alternative Investments to Diversify Your Portfolio

For many Americans, the most straightforward path to building a nest egg is to simply dollar-cost average into an S&P 500 index fund. With enough socked away into one every payday for the better part of a career, it becomes almost trivially simple for compounding to work its magic on your behalf.

Still, for reasons ranging from needing some money with higher near-term certainty than stocks to a wish to trade higher risks for higher potential returns, there are plenty of reasons to invest elsewhere. With that reality in mind, here are 10 alternative investments to diversify your portfolio.

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