the scope and attractiveness of alternative investments is increasing heres a weekly tracker of returns from such investments however do not compare these with returns from traditional investments since the proportion and purpose of alternative investments is vastly differentgolddue to continuing rally triggered by a weakening dollar gold was able to generate another 5 gain over the past week silver profit booking resulted in silver falling by rs 2500 per kg or 4 in a day during the week but it still gained by more than 2 compared to last week wti crudeweak demand outlook triggered by the increase in covid19 cases is keeping the crude oil prices close to 40 per barrel for the last 45 days wine indexyou can also make money by investing in wine and the livex fine wine 50 index from bloomberg it tracks daily price movement of the most heavily traded commodities in the wine market