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Liquid alternative ETFs have been around for the better part of two decades, with the first fund in the category coming online in 2009. In the time since, ****** et managers have introduced a diverse set of both active and passive alternative-focused funds, all generally seeking to produce uncorrelated alpha by investing across equities, fixed income, derivatives and currencies while mitigating overall market risk.
Alternative ETFs remain a comparatively small segment of the ETF market as of mid-2026, but there are signs of growing retail demand driven by a combination of factors that includes equity market concentration in mega-cap stocks and an increasingly positive correlation between stocks and bonds propelled by sticky inflation and a higher-for-longer interest rate outlook. In this environment, investors are considering whether the traditional 60/40 portfolio of stocks and bonds still makes sense.
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Liquid alternative ETFs have been around for the better part of two decades, with the first fund in the category coming online in 2009. In the time since, ****** et managers have introduced a diverse set of both active and passive alternative-focused funds, all generally seeking to produce uncorrelated alpha by investing across equities, fixed income, derivatives and currencies while mitigating overall market risk.
Alternative ETFs remain a comparatively small segment of the ETF market as of mid-2026, but there are signs of growing retail demand driven by a combination of factors that includes equity market concentration in mega-cap stocks and an increasingly positive correlation between stocks and bonds propelled by sticky inflation and a higher-for-longer interest rate outlook. In this environment, investors are considering whether the traditional 60/40 portfolio of stocks and bonds still makes sense.
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