At a time of muted expectations for more traditional assets, alternative investments provide individual investors a way to hedge against increased volatility and generate strong returns.
Trading in inverse ETFs -- vehicles that win when the market loses -- is eclipsing activity in bullish leveraged products by the widest margin since the financial crisis.
It is highly unusual for both fixed income and equities to perform so badly at the same time, but inflation has flipped their correlation to the same direction.