Other ways to get yield

In recent weeks, Financial Post print and online readers have been learning about alternative investments from David Kaufman, president of Toronto-based Westcourt Capital Inc. Westcourt is an exempt-market dealer, meaning it sells securities that are exempt from prospectus requirements.

Investors are driven to seek these alternatives because the past decade was largely a lost one for stocks. And while bonds have enjoyed a 30-year bull market, that party appears over now that interest rates have touched bottom and are inching up again. Such investors seek yield, but not necessarily "fixed income."

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