What are alternatives ETFs? Hedge funds, commodities, options strategies, private equity—anything that doesn't fit cleanly into the equity or fixed-income buckets has been termed 'alternative' at one point or another. Perhaps the most defining characteristic for alternative investments was that if you were not a 'qualified investor,' most investors couldn't buy them. Today, however, financial innovation has made many of these complex strategies available to a broader audience through ETFs.
With 49 ETFs traded on the U.S. markets, Alternative ETFs ETFs have total assets under management of $7.24B. The average expense ratio is 1.03%. Alternative ETFs ETFs can be found in the following asset classes:
- Alternatives
The largest Alternative ETFs ETF is the RPAR Risk Parity ETF RPAR with $1.10B in assets. In the last trailing year, the best-performing Alternative ETFs ETF was PFIX at 38.57%. The most recent ETF launched in the Alternative ETFs space was the Return Stacked Bonds & Managed Futures ETF RSBT on 02/08/23.