Asset Allocation in a Zero Interest Rate World
The current low level of interest rates provides investors with a very low starting point for forecasting future market returns.
This paper considers the role for alternative asset allocations in a 60/40 balanced portfolio in different economic scenarios over the medium term.
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Missing Asset Class
Australian investors’ portfolios are commonly allocated between two extremes: low-risk cash and fixed interest at one end, and high-risk equities (predominantly Australian equities) at the other, leaving a rather large gap in the middle.
This is unfortunate, because there is an income-producing asset that sits comfortably in that gap. This is The Missing Asset Class.
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Better yields than bonds (with less risk than equities)
Investors are facing a common challenge: falling cash rates make it hard to earn a real return above inflation. Record-low yields on asset classes like cash (term deposits) and traditional fixed interest (government bonds) provide little investment income, while attempting to target similar returns from previous years may force investors to allocate into riskier asset classes such as equities, just as those markets are reaching new peaks.
