Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ALTERNATIVE ASSET CLASS
  
  a class of investments that includes private equity, real estate, and oil and gas, but excludes publicly traded securities. Pension plans, college endowments, and other relatively large institutional investors typically allocate a certain percentage of their investments to alternative assets with an objective to diversify their portfolios.
  
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