The coronavirus has changed everything. We’ve seen a bear market in equities - and then a bull market - with swings of over 20% in both directions. We have witnessed wild currency moves, a plunging oil price and liquidity disappear from fixed income and credit markets.
How should we think about asset allocation in such a fast-moving market environment? We ask Co-Head of Multi-Asset Solutions, Kej Somaia, how objective-based investors can grapple with dispersion of returns between asset classes.
Kej will discuss:
- Overall asset allocation and the breakdown of traditional relationships between defensive and growth assets.
- What we can draw from the past; while history will not provide a playbook, there are lessons to be learnt about turbulence.
- The outlook for inflation for objective-based investors, given markets are tipping recession, while central banks and governments around the world deliver unprecedented stimulus.
- Whether tightening liquidity means investors should change the way they manage portfolios.
- The dislocation opportunities for asset allocators - the commodity we avoid in calmer times, what it would take for us to increase our allocation to equities and why we won’t be sitting the crisis out in cash.
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