The efficient frontier calculation, based on the recent five years, takes into the account the poor performance of European
assets during the economic downturn.
But if the main reason you're investing in gold is for protection of your financial
assets during an economic downturn or «Black Swan» type event, it hardly makes sense to place your trust in the banking system.
Not exact matches
We have found that the proper
asset allocation can ease anxiety
during economic downturns and in environments characterized by unusually high uncertainty.
Many institutional owners have turned to Davidson
during this
economic downturn, as our 35 - year track record of repositioning full - service
assets and creating value is unrivaled.»
On the other hand, there are safe haven
assets like US treasury bonds that could potentially work, because they appreciate in value
during economic downturns.
For example, I personally believe that we'll have another recession in the US in the next 1 - 5 years (based solely on typical
economic cyclicality and past history) and, given that I'm currently a longer - term investor, I'm focusing on
asset classes that I think will sustain well
during downturns (ie.