Triton Capital Advisors, LLC: Providing Alternative Investments
One of the more recent innovations in investing has been the development of “Alternative Investments.” Generally known as hedge funds, these vehicles were originally developed so that an investor could both buy equities and short sell other equities so as to hedge his portfolio to a certain extent and be somewhat protected in bear markets. This gave investment advisors the ability to diversify client’s portfolios, which made hedge funds and commodities investments a popular investment vehicle. Starting around 1990, the great expansion of hedge funds began and included not only so-called “long/short equity” strategies, but also others such as risk arbitrage, statistical arbitrage, distressed investing, short-selling, global macro, and managed futures.
