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Risk-adjusted performance continued to rise in September for the Global Market Index (GMI), an unmanaged, market-value-weighted portfolio that holds all the major asset classes (except cash). GMI’s 0.97 Sharpe ratio is close to the highest levels reached in recent history. ...
Global Market Index is useful as a starting point for research on asset allocation and portfolio design. Predictions for the market components are subject to greater uncertainty compared with aggregating forecasts, a process that may cancel out some of the errors through time. Com...
Global markets suffered their broadest retreat in a year during September. The bullish exception: commodities, which delivered a solid gain last month. Notably, US stocks and bonds lost ground, giving support to concerns that the historical diversification benefits of pairing the two ...
How to achieve a respectable income without taking on too much risk. What's the right risk/yield trade-off for reasonable income? Will '80s-style inflation return? For further details see: The Great Fixed Income Challenge: Balancing Yield And Risk In A Low-Rate World
Risk-adjusted performance continued to rise in August for the Global Market Index. Sharpe ratios in global markets generally are elevated. GMI represents a theoretical benchmark for the “optimal” portfolio. For further details see: Major Asset Classes | Aug...
When making historical comparisons, it’s important to consider how things have evolved compared to past periods. With respect to investment grade, the story isn’t a good one. Today, despite a favorable growth backdrop and expectations for low defaults, we believe the ris...
Given the sizeable skew in the distribution of outcomes toward negative real returns, it's extremely important to be selective in high-quality fixed income, and to be truly vested in one’s investments so that portfolios are not permanently impaired. In the short term, the commo...
The expected risk premium for the Global Market (GMI) ticked up in August, reaching an annualized 6.1%, slightly above the previous month’s estimate. Despite the comparatively high GMI forecast, the current estimate remains well below the index’s realized risk premium fo...
The winning streak for American shares rolled on in August. US stocks rose for a seventh straight month and posted the strongest gain for the major asset classes. US bonds also lost ground in August. The Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index slipped 0.2%, the first monthly decline for the be...
GMI’s 10-year Sharpe ratio (SR) edged up for a fifth straight month to 0.86, the highest since January 2020, based on a rolling ten-year window via monthly data. Profiling GMI through a drawdown lens also reflects an extended stretch of low risk. GMI is useful as a baseline...
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2024-07-23 09:00:23 ET Western Asset Investment Grade Defined Opportunity Trust Inc (IGI) declaring a stock dividend of $0.071 per share on Ex-Date : July 24, 2024. Shareholders on record as of July 24, 2024 are eligible for the dividend. The payment date is scheduled for August 01,...
2024-06-20 09:00:23 ET Western Asset Investment Grade Defined Opportunity Trust Inc (IGI) declaring a stock dividend of $0.071 per share on Ex-Date : June 21, 2024. Shareholders on record as of June 21, 2024 are eligible for the dividend. The payment date is scheduled for July 01, 2...
Western Asset Investment Grade Defined Opportunity Trust Inc. (the “Fund”), which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “IGI,” announced today the results of the votes cast at the Fund’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held on June 7, 2024. ...