In 2018, when global investors suffered as markets fell and equities in many cases failed to perform, investments in some asset classes that had been promoted as diversifying failed to deliver on their promise, Natixis Investment Managers said.
The decline in global equity markets contributed roughly two-thirds of the losses investors saw in their portfolios during 2018, Natixis said in its latest Global Portfolio Barometer report.
Many investors had hoped that investments in fixed income, multi-asset funds and multi-strategy alternatives would provide a level of diversification to their overall investment portfolio returns, but in 2018