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Glutch explained that during inflationary growth, commodities, direct real estate, infrastructure and Treasury inflation-protection securities (TIPS) investments perform better. During non-inflationary growth, active equity and high-yield debt mitigate risk. During a recession, cash and government bonds help balance risk. As an example, he said that in addition to stocks and bonds, the TDF could include commodities; an asset allocation equalizing risk would be 60% bonds, 20% stocks and 20% commodities. This will result in a better risk-adjusted return in all environments, and also offer a better path dependency on returns that is more favorable to investors at retirement taking distributions, Glutch said. The fund’s glide path with risk parity will look different. The portfolio maintains an equal risk exposure to each asset class, so when an asset class is reduced in the glide path, the risk exposure will be reduced. Risk parity could be a satellite holding for total portfolio allocation, as outlined in Glutch’s example above, or it could be the core design - conservative, including absolute return strategies and asset classes for each of the three economic situations.
Glutch explained that during inflationary growth, commodities, direct real estate, infrastructure and Treasury inflation-protection securities (TIPS) investments perform better. During non-inflationary growth, active equity and high-yield debt mitigate risk. During a recession, cash and government bonds help balance risk.
As an example, he said that in addition to stocks and bonds, the TDF could include commodities; an asset allocation equalizing risk would be 60% bonds, 20% stocks and 20% commodities. This will result in a better risk-adjusted return in all environments, and also offer a better path dependency on returns that is more favorable to investors at retirement taking distributions, Glutch said.
The fund’s glide path with risk parity will look different. The portfolio maintains an equal risk exposure to each asset class, so when an asset class is reduced in the glide path, the risk exposure will be reduced.
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