Overview
At RCM Alternatives, we believe that investors deserve more than the traditional 60/40. By blending educational insight, institutional access, and specialized expertise, our Recommended Liquid Alternatives page helps investors identify flexible, transparent, and diversified solutions that fit within modern portfolios.
Liquid alternatives — such as futures-based ETFs and mutual funds — provide exposure to institutional strategies through public markets, offering daily liquidity, lower investment minimums, and tax efficiency. These vehicles can be powerful tools for investors seeking resilient portfolio construction and enhanced long-term outcomes.
ETFs & Mutual Funds
Access Institutional Strategies with Daily Liquidity
RCM’s recommended lineup of liquid alternative ETFs and mutual funds bridges the gap between complex institutional-grade futures strategies and accessible investment vehicles designed for individual investors, RIAs, and institutions alike.
Our focus: products that actually diversify, not just claim to.
We evaluate funds across key criteria:
True Diversification: Strategies that show low historical correlation to equities and bonds.
Proven Crisis Performance: Documented resilience during major equity market drawdowns.
Transparency: Daily holdings visibility and well-defined risk processes.
Operational Soundness: Institutional-grade fund infrastructure — trading, clearing, and compliance.
Efficiency: Lower costs, streamlined access, and operational simplicity.
Through our integrated clearing and execution relationships with over ten futures commission merchants (FCMs), and our longstanding partnerships across the ETF and mutual fund ecosystem, we provide direct access to a curated selection of futures-based liquid alternatives.
Example fund types may include:
Managed Futures ETFs — Capturing trend-following and macro trading strategies
Multi-Strategy Liquid Alts — Blending long/short equity, relative value, and systematic macro
Volatility & Options-Based Funds — Aiming to profit from non-linear market behavior
Risk Parity or Adaptive Allocation Products — Designed to balance risk across diverse return sources
Why Alt Investments
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Traditional portfolios have struggled to deliver on expectations in a world of low yields and rising correlations. Alternatives help solve that problem, offering access to different return streams and strategies proven to perform when other assets falter.
During historical crisis periods, well-selected alternative strategies have delivered positive returns and meaningful downside protection, reducing drawdowns and helping investors stay invested through turbulent markets.
Whether through managed futures, systematic macro, or volatility strategies, alternatives add genuine non-correlated exposure that complements, not competes with, your equity or bond holdings.