Despite a plethora of lurking dangers, markets had continued to bark until recently when the outbreak of the coronavirus started dogging investors as to if and when the bark might turn into a whimper. But the new decade calls for restoring more bite than (central bank induced) bark as portfolios crave for sustainable growth to fight a universally accepted low-return environment, ahead. With uncontrollable macro variables and rapidly changing market dynamics overwhelming fundamentals, the need for an even stronger bite is perhaps more urgent than ever.
As we know, traditional asset allocation models (e.g. 60/40)