The 60/40 portfolio just won't die, maybe because it's designed not to.
Investors are finally looking past the threat of higher policy rates as they set positions.
The bond manager says that a recession could hinder riskier assets like stocks.
Investors scooped up government debt on the first trading day of 2023.
Investors anticipate that the Fed will further slow its pace of rate hikes as inflation cools.
Only two managers of large U.S. bond funds have managed to record a gain this year.
Of the 198 bond funds with more than $1 billion, only these two managed to record a gain this year.
After 400 basis points of rate hikes, a hawkish Fed no longer poses the same degree of danger to bond investors it once did.
Opinions continue to diverge on the trajectory of interest rates through next year.
TIPS didn't offer many investors the "protections" they felt they were promised.