Your Portfolio Wasn't Built for This
Many Happy Returns · PensionCraft
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Show Notes
Your portfolio was probably designed for falling interest rates and cheap oil. That is no longer the world we live in. Equity indices have minimal energy exposure. Bonds amplify losses during a rising rate environment. And even gold is down 20% from its peak. So what you can actually do when the big asset classes are struggling?
And in the Dumb Question of the Week: What is the Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index?
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