I'd like to change some money best rx promotions Rosenbluth suggests investors use three criteria to judge alternative funds: size (the bigger, the better, so lack of liquidity isn't a concern), fees and track record. The latter criterion is perhaps the hardest to satisfy, largely because a significant percentage of alternative funds didn't exist prior to the 2008 downturn. For instance, at the end of 2008, there were only 49 absolute return funds in S&P Capital IQ's database. Now there are 382.