A daily letter on the markets the wealthy quietly own

What we publish

The daily letter. One email every morning, a five-minute read: the overnight moves across the alternative markets, the story of the day with the number that makes it matter, our own composite index, the one thing that changed most and our take on it, what actually sold at auction, and the asset you did not know was an asset. Free. Subscribe here.

The guides. A flagship guide on each market we cover and the umbrella guide across all of them, sent by email as PDFs, plus the free guides on the site: how each market works, its honest long-run record, what ownership costs, the tax, and the doors a careful buyer uses. The library is at /guides.

The Index. The IA Composite and its sub-indexes, computed every morning from public sources, licensed feeds and our own daily collection, with 11 sub-indexes live as of 2026-09-26 and the rest accruing history. The construction is published at /index/methodology; the number is at /index.

Platform reviews. What each platform sells, what it costs once every fee is counted, what it has returned against what it claimed, how you get your money out, and who should skip it. We take no referral fees from any platform we review and say so on every page. The reviews are at /reviews.

How it is made

Every figure we publish has to pass the same rules. It carries a source and a date in the sentence or the chart caption. A claimed return is labelled claimed and an unrealised mark is labelled unrealised. A price without a comparison is trivia and gets cut. When a number is ours, it comes from our own tape, and the tape is public on the Index pages.

Long-form pieces go through a desk before they run: a fact checker who works claim by claim and keeps a ledger, an editor for structure and house rules, and a managing pass across the library for consistency. The daily letter is assembled each morning from the engine’s data and the desk’s reporting, and the IA Take in every issue is a falsifiable call that is logged and graded when its date arrives.

We make mistakes, and we correct them in the next issue or on the page. If you find one, reply to any issue of the letter.

What we are not

We are not an investment adviser, a broker-dealer or a marketplace, and nothing we publish is a recommendation. The people who write and edit Invest Alternative may own assets in the markets we cover, and we disclose a position in a specific asset when we write about it. Sponsors, when the letter carries one, never see a piece before it runs and are labelled in the piece. The full statement is in the disclaimer.

Contact

Reply to any issue of the letter, or write to Invest Alternative, 1065 SW 8th St #2079, Miami, FL 33130, United States.