Andrew Lapthorne - Thematic Baskets and Strong Balance Sheets (S4E13)
Flirting with Models
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Buying Inflation Assets in a Multi-Acet Portfolio
I thought what was very interesting in one of the prior pieces wrote on the inflation trade though, was recognizing that inflation sensitive equities have largely just gone sideways for 15 or 20 years. And so the question becomes, if you want to buy this basket and even try to quantitatively analyze which securities you should be buying, it is potentially a dangerous trade from a relative return perspective. But wed like the idea of having an inflation exposure in a multi acet portfolio because it hedges all these other risks.
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