As an extension of the Interactive case studies, apply your research of the four (4) areas of Alternative Investments: Real Assets, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, and Structured Products.

Summarize your research into Real Assets.

In the first 2 slides, you will simply tell your audience which type of specific asset you will be focusing on and summarize the key characteristics of this investment. For example, within the first case study, you will be learning about real assets, however, within real assets, there are many different types of real assets. In this assignment, you will select a specific subset of real assets such as rental real estate, farmland, mining land, or some other type of real asset and inform your audience of its key characteristics.

Let's not choose rental real estate. Lets do something else.

Provide recommendations, either for or against, investing in a specific type of real assets (I.e., land, real estate, etc.)

In this slide, you will simply provide your audience with a recommendation on the type of specific asset you are focusing on. Keep in mind that your recommendation might be somewhat nuanced. In other words, the type of specific asset you are focusing on may have both positive and negative prospects. In other words, there may exist a mixed picture of your specific assets, and if so, you will need to briefly inform your audience what these might entail.

Provide your rationale for your recommendations. In other words, you will discuss the risk and return potential for your recommendations.

In the last 2 slides, you will discuss the risk and return potential for your specific asset/investment recommendations. What are the potential returns? What are the potential losses? How liquid is the asset? Does this asset help diversify a portfolio to reduce risk, or increase it? Essentially you will summarize the upside and downside of this asset.