Let's say you find yourself with some money to invest.

Where do you want to put it?

Maybe you really like sports and you think you're good at picking winners.

So should you go heavy on sports betting?

Sports betting, zero sum.

And there are fees.

So your expected return is negative.

So you better get some fun out of sports betting or you shouldn't do it. All right. So that's probably not a good investing option.

Any other ideas? The worst are lotteries. The lottery your expected return is terrible.

How about investing in cryptocurrencies?

Crypto is very volatile. But if you're paying low fees or low transaction costs to trade,

it's a fair bet. Do you know if crypto's going to go up or down? I don't. Can you put some

of your portfolio in it? Probably some. So how about the tried and true method of buying some stock shares

of a big publicly traded firm? Or even better, maybe a low-cost index fund that includes a lot of

stocks? You buy a stock at competitive fees or an index fund in particular. It's a fair bet with a positive expected return.

That's awesome. Over time, that's how you build wealth.

There are now decades of research showing that low-cost index funds do offer good returns

at a relatively low risk. But what if I told you that there is an even better bet,

an investment category that has been outperforming stocks over the past 40 years? The problem is,

this investment wasn't available to retail customers. It was mostly for institutional and

ultra-wealthy investors. But that seems about to change. On August 7th, President Trump signed

an executive order called democratizing access to alternative assets for 401K investors. Those assets

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