Did Real Assets Provide An Inflation Hedge When Investors Needed It Most?
Source: SeekingAlpha
2025-02-07 03:55:00 ET
Summary
- We own real assets for their diversification benefits generally, and for their inflation-hedging properties specifically.
- In this blog, I review the performance of three indexes representative of asset classes that an allocator might include in a real asset bucket.
- Real assets respond slightly better to headline shocks than to underlying inflation - the coefficients for real assets variables are generally higher than those for the broad equity market.
We own real assets for their diversification benefits generally, and for their inflation-hedging properties specifically.
Real assets' first test in modern times started in 2021, when inflation climbed to levels not seen in more than a generation, taking more than two years to subside....
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Did Real Assets Provide An Inflation Hedge When Investors Needed It Most?
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