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    • Investors turn toward liquid alternative funds

      Fund companies meet demand for downside protection in wake of 2008 market collapse with line-up of liquid alternative products—and investors respond.

    • How to master the tricks of energy investing

      They're called master limited partnerships, and investing in them can be as mystifying as the name. Here are some tips.

    • The pros and cons of commodity investing

      While commodities aren't for every investor, experts agree these diverse asset classes can provide downside protection and upside potential.

    • Art, antiques investing is for the long haul

      Art and antiques investing is viewed as a hedge against stock market volatility. But this strategy comes with its own risks and expenses.

    • Whisky & wine may not be such liquid assets

      Alternative investments, like wine and whisky, can truly diversify an investor's portfolio. But there could be a catch.

    • Maximizing fixed-income plans with alternatives

      With bond investors skittish over interest-rate risk, the search is on for alternative investment.

    • Using alternative strategies for 'average' investors

      Alternative investments are not just for the super rich. In fact, “average” investors are using a wide range of alternative asset strategies.

    • Alternative investments
      Investors have alternative investing options

      Alternative investments have the potential to enhance the risk and/or return of an investment portfolio.

    • Need Money? Score Big Cash for Fine Wine

      Bordeaux Cellars makes loans against the best wines in the world. The company hears from about ten potential borrowers a week, and so far, there have been no defaults.

    • Pablo Picasso's Femme pres d'une fenetre
      Painting a Profit: 10-Year Boom Ahead for Art?

      The art market is to experience a "10- year boom" according to an expert, as investors from China and the Middle East drive demand towards unprecedented levels.

    • Public Anger Over Europe’s Budget, and Wine Cellar, Bubbles Before Talks
      Public Anger Over Europe’s Budget, and Wine Cellar, Bubbles Before Talks

      Amid wrangling over how much money the European Union spends at a time of grinding austerity across the Continent, Martin Ehrenhauser, an Austrian member of the European Parliament, lobbed a sobering question this summer at the union’s Brussels bureaucracy: How many bottles of booze does it have stocked in its wine cellars, the New York Times reports.

    • Spain Woos Foreigners to Thin Its Inventory of Unsold Homes
      Spain Woos Foreigners to Thin Its Inventory of Unsold Homes

      Spain plans to offer residency permits to foreigners who buy houses priced at more than 160,000 euros ($203,845) as part of its efforts to revive a collapsed real estate market and divest itself of hundreds of thousands of unsold homes.

    • Sotheby's 'Impressionist' Auction
      Sotheby's 'Impressionist' Auction   

      Sotheby's held its first impressionist and modern art auction last night, but the season is getting a lousy start, reports CNBC's Bertha Coombs.

    • Alternative Investing: Race Horses
      Alternative Investing: Race Horses   

      The Hon. Harry Herbert, chairman of Highclere Thoroughbred Racing, told CNBC, that investing in race horses is "a numbers game, just to spend a fortune on one horse you are taking a gigantic risk."

    • Is Now the Time to Invest in Fine Wine?

      2012 is the best time to invest in fine wine since 2009, according to wine broker Vin-X’s Jeremy Peacock.

    • Wide World of Investing

      Alternative investing may not be for everyone, but there's an entry point for almost anyone—and as popular cable TV programs illustrate every week, small fortunes can be found in attics, basements and, yes, storage rooms.

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    Alternative Investing 2012