The Alternative Answer - The Nontraditional Investments That Drive the World's Best Performing Portfolios

CHAPTER 7

Long-Term Growth Enhancement (Job 3)

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

       —JOHN PAUL JONES

Time to play offense. These are the strategies through which John Paulson generated a 500% return for his investors in a year and that returned George Soros 6,000% over ten. It’s where private company investors routinely talk about getting multiples of their money back instead of basis points on it. Much of that potential upside comes from the strategies themselves, but this is also where we’ll find some superstar managers who really produce alpha.

There is just a touch of bad ...