Got $5,000? Buy These 2 Stocks and Hold Until Retirement

A great way to build a significant retirement nest egg is to invest in companies focused on capitalizing on a major trend. They should be able to grow their revenue and earnings at above-average rates, which should help them produce superior returns over the long term.

Two megatrends that have the potential of producing some winning investments in the coming years are alternative investment management and cybersecurity. One standout stock in each of those sectors is Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) and CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ: CRWD). This means those with $5,000 (or less) to invest could consider splitting that cash across those two high-potential growth stocks.

Investors have been steadily pouring more capital into alternative investments (i.e., those outside the public stock and bond markets like private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, infrastructure, and private real estate) for years. Alternative assets under management (AUM) have grown from around $4 trillion in 2010 to over $10 trillion by 2020, according to Prequin, a leading data, analytics, and insight provider to the alternative asset industry.

Source Fool.com