Inflation vs Stagflation - How do Real Asset Portfolios Differ?
Be wary of economic growth sensitivities in your real asset portfolios if the economic environment were to be stagflationary.
Commodities can serve an important role in a multi-asset institutional portfolio, both strategically, as a diversifying asset class or as an inflation or growth hedge, and tactically, as a return enhancer. Thought leaders from PGIM’s Institutional Advisory & Solutions (IAS) group and QMA’s multi-asset solutions team recently got together to discuss the challenges and possible opportunities for institutional investors investing in commodities. Following is a summary of their recent webcast.
Real assets can play a vital role in institutional portfolios.
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Be wary of economic growth sensitivities in your real asset portfolios if the economic environment were to be stagflationary.
What is the role of gold in an institutional portfolio? Inflation hedge? Growth hedge? Diversifier? What does the evidence show?
There are four elements to successful real assets investing: sensitivities, investment horizon, estimation uncertainty and economic outlook.