iShares Diversified Alternatives Trust (ALT)

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Fund Description

The investment seeks to maximize absolute returns. The fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing in a portfolio of foreign currency forward contracts and exchange-traded futures contracts that may involve commodities, currencies, interest rates and certain eligible stock or bond indices while seeking to reduce the risks and volatility inherent in those investments by taking long and short positions in historically correlated assets.

Fund Snapshot Updated 05.16.2013

Previous Close $53.37 Expense Ratio 0.95%
YTD Return 5.4% Avg. 30-Day Volume 14,985
1-Year Return 9.6% Market Cap Loading...
Bid $53.15 Shares Outstanding 900,000
Ask $53.42 Dividends $0.00
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