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What Is Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Worth?
The cost of production model has the potential to establish a reasonable benchmark for bitcoin.
Alternative Investments
Morningstar’s latest analysis of investments that don’t fall into the typical core categories of stocks, bonds, funds, and ETFs. Learn about investing in cryptocurrency, gold, and more.
Featured Alternative Investments Articles
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What Is Bitcoin’s Scarcity Worth?
Demonstrating that bitcoin’s restricted supply contributed to its incredible rise is one small step. Using it to forecast the future is a giant leap.
What Is Bitcoin’s Network Worth?
Network effects are more complicated to model for bitcoin than for other assets.
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Structured Products: Right Idea, Wrong Execution
The concept makes sense, but not its packaging.
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HSAs May Work Best as Tax Shelters
Is there a better way to make healthcare affordable?
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What Is Bitcoin Worth?
This article, first of a series, attempts to answer that question by valuing bitcoin under the total addressable market approach.
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Understanding Structured Products in 4 Charts
Our simple framework breaks down a subset of fast-growing but complex assets.
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Women Founders Get 2% of Venture Capital Funding in U.S.
Those paired with a male founder get 16.5%, PitchBook says.
Are Hedge Funds Now Worth Considering?
In 2022, they delivered on their promises.
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Real Estate Funds, Private REITs, and BREIT: What You Need to Know
The pluses and minuses of an alternative to real estate mutual funds.
Guggenheim CIO Scott Minerd Has Died
His unexpected death casts uncertainty on many of the firm’s strategies.
Will FTX’s Collapse Prove to Be the Big One?
Crypto has experienced blowups before, but none have rocked confidence in the markets quite like this.
What You Need to Know About Ethereum’s Software Upgrade
A brief summary of “The Merge,” the biggest enhancement to the ethereum blockchain since its launch in 2016.
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The 5 Best Financial Innovations—Ever
No, bitcoin does not make the cut.
Why Aren’t More Women Talking About Crypto?
Morningstar experts note the volatile asset has attracted younger, wealthier men overall. Here’s why.
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Investing Is No Laughing Matter
Crypto’s promoters ignore the serious side of investing.
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Cash as an Inflation Hedge: Revisited
The advantages of playing it safe.
When Bonds Do Not Hedge Stocks
For the first time in decades, bonds haven’t protected balanced portfolios. What to do?
