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Quick Clips: 2022 Capital Market Assumptions for Major Asset Classes

January 27, 2022

Performance of traditional stock/bond portfolios has been remarkable over the last decade, but the current outlook is more subdued. Hear from AQR’s Portfolio Solutions Group on some practical, incremental changes that could boost expected returns without adding substantial risk.

Alternative Thinking

2021 Capital Market Assumptions for Major Asset Classes

Q1 2021 - Portfolio Solutions Group

We update our estimates of medium-term (5- to 10-year) expected returns for major asset classes. We also discuss what investors should expect from the stock-bond correlation in the coming decade.

Alternative Thinking

Fire and Ice: Confronting the Twin Perils of Inflation and Deflation

Q4 2020 - Portfolio Solutions Group

The COVID-19 pandemic and the responses to it by governments, central banks and consumers have unleashed both disinflationary and inflationary forces, but we do not know which forces will win over the longer term. We explore the historical inflation sensitivities of a range of different investments and present the benefits of both risk-balanced asset allocations and dynamic directional strategies to prepare for uncertain times.

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Was That Intentional? Ways to Improve Your Active Risk

September 28, 2020 - Portfolio Solutions Group

Investors try to outperform their strategic asset allocation benchmarks by taking active risks. Some of these are intentional, but others are low-conviction or even unintentional, which can be a large part of a portfolio’s total active risk. When it comes to beating a strategic asset allocation benchmark, reducing these unintentional active risks may among the clearest sources of “low hanging fruit”.

Working Paper

Biases in Long-Horizon Predictive Regressions

June 4, 2020 - Jacob Boudoukh Matthew P. Richardson

This paper derives the small sample bias of estimators in J horizon predictive regressions, providing a plug-in adjustment for these estimators. A number of surprising results emerge, including a higher bias for overlapping than nonoverlapping regressions despite the greater number of observations and particularly higher bias for an alternative long-horizon predictive regression commonly advocated for in the literature.

Alternative Thinking

2020 Capital Market Assumptions for Major Asset Classes (Supplemental Estimates as of March 31, 2020)

May 6, 2020 - Portfolio Solutions Group

This supplement provides a special update to our estimates of medium-term (5- to 10-year) expected returns for major asset classes. This update reflects the large changes in prices for many asset classes due to the impact of COVID-19 in Q1 2020.

Alternative Thinking

2020 Capital Market Assumptions for Major Asset Classes

January 29, 2020 - Portfolio Solutions Group

We update our estimates of medium-term (5- to 10-year) expected returns for major asset classes, and introduce a method for quantifying the expected return on cash.

Alternative Thinking