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For most of their careers, asset allocators have invested in a negative stock-bond correlation world. When stocks fall, sovereign bonds rising generally rise in value – providing a hedge against equities within a diversified portfolio.
The correlation between stock and bond returns has been reliably and persistently negative for the last two decades across Developed Markets (DM) – matching the US experience. During this regime, stocks and bonds have hedged one another, dampening overall portfolio risk for a given level of equity allocation.
Red dogs, stump tails and blue pups were just some of the creative names for the ultimately doomed currencies issued by poorly capitalized state-chartered banks during the wildcat banking era in U.S. monetary history from 1837 to 1863 – until Congress finally passed legislation that created a single centrally backed national U.S. currency.
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