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Don’t call it a comeback: Improving portfolio durability with liquid alternative strategies

Alternative investment styles, such as equity market neutral and managed futures, have grown significantly in daily liquid wrappers as investors recognize their ability to enhance portfolio diversification while providing ease of implementation.

Key Takeaways
  • Advisors and their clients are re-examining traditional sources of diversification due to above-trend interest rates and inflation, rising stock/bond correlations, high valuations, and geopolitical uncertainty.
  • Within the liquid alternatives universe, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that employ hedge-fund-like investment styles are seeing significant growth due to their ability to diversify a traditional portfolio.
  • Strategies such as equity market neutral and managed futures, which seek to provide idiosyncratic alpha, exposure to alternative risk premia, and non-correlated returns, may enhance portfolio resilience.
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Don't call it a comeback: improving portfolio durability with liquid alternative strategies