Balancing your portfolio with alternative investments By Carel la Cock* Stock markets have had a tremendous run following the Covid-19 induced market crash in March last year. The S&P500 has grown more than 87% while the Nasdaq was up 105% since then, setting new records weekly. Other world indices have followed suit and the MSCI All-Country World Index has jumped nearly 60%. Understandably investors are getting nervous about an impending market correction and not a week goes by without macro economists predicting the next crash. So how then does one sufficiently diversify a portfolio when the correlation between asset classes starts to converge?