2020 alternatives outlook: Real assets and gold offer 'key benefits' for investors

Prospects for alternatives remain positive

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Negative yields, equities and bonds remaining in lockstep and heightened geopolitical uncertainty has led several investment professionals to either increase their weighting or maintain an overweight to alternatives throughout the course of 2019.

In particular, industry commentators are seeking attractive opportunities in physical gold and infrastructure assets, and they expect these will retain their positive outlook over the course of 2020. Thinking outside the box with alternative asset classes According to data from FE Fundinfo, the MSCI AC World index and the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Corporate Bond index started moving closer together during the first half of the year and finally converged in August, although the performance gap has since widened. However, both indices have experienced similar levels of annu...

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