Almighty dollar

Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 Categories: FX rates, Harlyn's Process, Risk-Adjusted Returns

Currency models don’t help with asset allocation

Many clients are surprised by our low exposure to US Equities given the strong dollar and their performance relative to global equities. It’s a direct consequence of the way we structure our asset allocation model. We could use a currency-based rather than an asset-class approach, but it doesn’t perform as well over the long-term and it doesn’t offer as much downside protection in the event of a correction. In any case, the risk-adjusted returns from US Equities have been bit underwhelming in 2018 to date.

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