Everything Middle Income Investors Need To Know About Alternative Investments

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Really, that's it. Alternatives, even real estate, are not what we should be worrying about. Equities, bonds and publicly traded REITs (real estate investment trusts listed like stocks) are what will fund our financial goals.

Yet the financial industry - and the financial media - push these esoteric and mostly unnecessary products like they're the next hot item that will help catalyze your financial success. They aren't.

Others push alternatives like cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin) and real estate crowdfunding like they're going to be the next great speculative wave that will create mega-millionaires overnight. While it's an attractive pitch, it rarely turns out that well for investors.