Cross-correlation is a measurement that tracks the movements over time of two variables relative to each other.
When it comes to constructing an investment portfolio, “negative correlation” is something of a holy grail. Diversification, investors are told, is about combining assets that behave differently. You ...
When I wake up and open my smartphone, the first thing I check is the previous day's New York market. If the S&P 500 is down, ...
Christian Allred has been a professional writer since 2020. He's written for some of the industry’s top brands and publications, including Rocket Mortgage, PropStream, Propmodo, and CRE Daily.
Correlation between stocks and bonds remains elevated, creating challenges for multi-asset investors. At the start of 2023, we had one important high-conviction asset allocation view: As inflation ...
Diversification sounds simple: avoid concentrating too much capital in a single market and spread positions across different commodities. That is a useful starting point, but commodity spread ...
Since early 2022, U.S. equities have experienced negative monthly returns in 17 separate months. Bonds declined in all but three of them. This pattern has led many investors and advisors to question ...
Diversification is one of the golden rules of investment management. By building a portfolio of different-performing assets, such as alternatives, investors are better able to reduce risk and generate ...
If we’re looking only at recent decades, the answer seems to be a definitive no. Even setting aside performance, the diversification benefit of international stocks seems to be fading for US investors ...
Investors need to be cautious of the risks of relying too heavily on historic correlations that are prone to change. The current positive correlation between bonds and equities undermines fixed income ...
Registered investment advisors (RIAs) are increasingly turning to private real estate as a way to augment clients’ performance and help them in their considerations of today’s market volatility Indeed ...