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Alternative Investments

An Alternative Investment is a non-traditional investment item other than stocks, bonds or other securities which would not be found in a standard investment portfolio. RIMES provides access to specially designed browser reports for alternative data resources which are outside of primary groupings like benchmarks and fixed income.

Listed below is our current group of Alternative Investment data sources. Note that this list will grow as RIMES continues to expand content.

• Alerian MLP Indices
• Cambridge Associates LLC
• Dow Jones Internet Index
• Dow Jones Jantzi Social Index
• Dow Jones-UBS Commodities
• EDHEC Risk Indices
• FTSE Currency Forward Rate
• FTSE EPRA/ NAREIT
• FTSE Gold Mines Index Series
• FTSE KLD Indices
• FTSE Macquarie
• Global Property Research
• HFR Indices & HFR Database
• IPD Annual Index
• KLD Research and Indices
• Mercer Property Funds
• MSCI REIT
• S&P/Citigroup Property
• S&P Global Thematic Indices
• S&P GSCI
• S&P US Preferred Stock Index
• UBS Property Indices
• Wisdom Tree Indices

RIMES provides a variety of effective data extraction methods. Below are output examples for a database browser report and a spreadsheet data extraction tool, both featuring Alternative Data sources. Browser reports are available to clients at RIMES Online, and data can be extracted from databases into your desktop spreadsheet via RTXLNET. To learn more about these two methods of data retrieval, see RIMES Desktop. If you wish to learn more about product details and subscriptions, please contact us.

Example - RTXLNET retrieval of cross-referenced Alternative data:

Example - RIMES Online report output featuring Alternative data: