Introduction to my alternative investments portfolio

I would like to give you an overview of my alternative investments. As you can see from the table below I started 2007 with my first alternative investment. There is quite a diversity of investments and lock-in periods.

Type of investment	Description	Year purchased	Lock-in time
Forest	Growing and owning trees at a teak plantation in Panama	2007	20 years
Property	Apartment to live in and refurbish	2007	None
Automated / robot forex trading	Automated grid-trading forex product	2008	None
Property	Apartment to live in and refurbish	2010	None
Forest	Investment in Baltic forest	2010	5 years
Land development	Land development in Russia	2010	3 years
Carbon credit investments		2012	1 year
Forest	Teak Brazil	2012	Min 3 years
Automated / robot stock trading	Automated stock trading product	2012	None
Forestry	Eucalyptus investment, Brazil	2012	6-7 years

I will elaborate on the "return on investment" status and give general reflections for each one of the investments above in upcoming posting. So stay tuned and subscribe to my blog, don’t miss out these interesting stories!

I also own stocks and funds, and I see alternative investments as a great complement (especially now, considering the unstable financial market climate that has dominated for a long time). Daily Finance noted in an article roughly two years ago: “If you invested $1,000 in the S&P 500 10 years ago, you would have only $850 today. And that's in nominal dollars, not factoring in inflation. Ouch.” (http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/10/29/top-10-stocks-of-the-last-10-years). Some alternative investments have had a really good journey during the same time. For example, gold has made a 400% increase during the same period…

 

Introduction of my blog

Welcome!

This blog will mainly focus on stock market-alternative investments such as forest investments, land investments, property investments, hedge funds, forex investments, and other interesting ways of making money.

The challenge with investment prospects is that there are far too many of them out there, and all of them sound very seductive. Can it really be true that every deal from every financial advisor will be successful? The answer is of course No - not everyone has successful investment offerings. But the tricky part is to sort out the lucrative investments. I have looked for a blog that is independently evaluating different investments but haven’t found any unfortunately. Therefore, in this blog I am investing my own money and give you direct feedback from the investments, informing you how much money I make from each one of them. That is why I call this blog experimental – I am trying out different investments that look attractive from the prospects or by rumors, and trying out if they really are as good as they seem to be! This can provide inspiration for how you invest your own money by following my success and learning from my mistakes! J

In this blog you will also read about my reasoning behind my investments, discussions about prospects, and other financially interesting topics.

You are more than welcome to take part of my updates of this blog, and I look forward to having you as a reader and I appreciate feedback! Please also feel free to give me suggestions of alternative investments to explore and to invest in.

Enjoy the reading!

Chris