“In a complete reversal of fortune, moderate-risk portfolios that saw double-digit gains aided by overweight allocations to equities in 2017 suffered grave losses due to overexposure to the same asset class in 2018,” she said.
Gross said that that moving forward, it was more important than ever for investors to consider increasing risk-mitigating investments to reduce market exposure.
Natixis Investment Managers, headquartered in Paris and Boston, is a global asset management company with $999.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Its clients are institutional investors, companies, private banks, distributors (multi-managers and financial advisers) and banking networks. The company is part of the French Natixis financial group.