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In the latest episode of Amplified Wealth, Austin Hagaman and Henry Mercer welcome Allen Steere, Portfolio Manager at Stone Ridge Asset Management, for a timely conversation about one of the most commonly used - and frequently misunderstood - words in investing: diversification.
Owning more funds, securities or asset classes may make a portfolio appear diversified. But when those investments depend on the same economic conditions or market risks, they may behave more similarly than investors expect - especially during periods of market stress.
Episode Highlights:
🧺 Diversification Is More Than Owning More
Why the number of investments in a portfolio may matter less than the underlying risks and sources of return driving them.
📉 The Limits of the Traditional 60/40 Portfolio
Stocks and bonds can both play important roles, but bonds may not always provide the downside protection investors expect - particularly when inflation and interest rates pressure both markets simultaneously.
🔍 What Makes an Investment Truly Diversifying?
Allen shares Stone Ridge’s three-part framework for identifying potential diversifiers: a positive expected return, an intuitive reason for profitability and a historically low correlation to traditional markets.
🌪️ Finding Returns Outside Traditional Markets
How strategies involving catastrophe reinsurance, alternative lending, single-family rentals and post-war and contemporary art may provide return streams driven by risks that are distinct from the stock and bond markets.
And Much More!
True diversification is not simply about owning investments with different names or labels. It is about understanding what drives their returns, how they may behave in difficult markets and whether they introduce a genuinely different source of risk into the portfolio.
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