• Liquid alternatives or liquid alternatives are alternative investment vehicles that aim to make them more accessible to retail investors.

  • Although they follow many of the same market strategies, liquid alternative funds are much more liquid than hedge funds, which means that investors can easily buy and sell the fund’s shares. Liquid alts also have lower minimum investments.
  • Critics argue that liquid alternatives cannot be the panacea for retail investors, as they claim, with unique and often opaque risks, high fees, and they can be prone to closing during volatile markets.