Alternative Mutual funds are gaining popularity amongst investors nowadays. Most Investors at the end of the year prefer to opt for a long term portfolio decisions, by investing into such areas which have good track records throughout the year. However they often have to differ from there targeted path.
Alternative mutual funds include commodities like precious metals, and bear market issues. As per the report submitted by Morningstar Inc. the precious metals funds kept losing at an average rate of 8% during the first half this year. Whereas as the bear market funds lost at a average rate of 1% during the same period.
Well looking at the current scenario dumping the precious metals funds seems quite appropriate, but during last six months 2010 these results were just opposite, the precious metal funds soared high compared to the bear market issues.