Way back in 2009 and 2010, we chronicled the moves by Fadi BouSamra, Metro's chief investment officer, to diversify the investments of the Employee Benefits Trust Fund. Now Institutional Investor's Frances Denmark writes that BouSamra's push to add some alternative assets has paid off in spades: The alternative fixed-income funds he picked have returned an average of almost 17 percent of the past three years.

HT: Milt Capps