Residential property prices have crashed. The stock market smashed last year. With the base rate at 0.5%, the best bank accounts aren’t yielding much more than 3%. No wonder investors are looking for alternatives. Even if they only offered similar returns to cash and equity investment, alternative investments would still provide portfolio diversification.
So what are the some of the options available to investors?

Agricultural investment

One interesting alternative is agricultural investment. Buying an arable farm might not be realistic for most investors, but pooled investment funds now allow investors to put as little as