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Inflation, rates and dividends: A financial review of 2021

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What Kind of Stocks Do You Buy as a Hedge Against Inflation?

Text tocks are often the first to fall sharply with inflation, and they have been at the forefront of recent sell offs. What do you buy as a conventional hedge against inflation, other than a text stop that you believe will go up forever? Well, i think the answer is persty clearly, equities. Rond t fixed income is going to be a very challenged asset class of interest rates ca itself,. But with regard to equities, the more that there is in fixed assets, real assets, under pinning the business model, the more protected those companies are from the threat of inflation.

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