Let's explore that question and also look at 8 key investing indexes, that
track popular asset classes, to see how they've performed recently.
The most
popular asset classes for outflows were large U.S. equity ($ 158 million), company stock ($ 110 million), and small U.S. equity funds ($ 61 million).
Rather, Dever lays out in specific detail several actionable investing strategies with different return drivers and low correlations to
popular asset classes.
Currently the primary drawback is not in managed futures themselves — I believe they provide diversification benefits because of their low correlation to
popular asset classes — but that ETF and mutual fund options are limited in the managed future space.
Following are
popular asset classes and sample index mutual funds and ETFs for each category.
The real estate investment trust industry continues to draw in dollars in huge amounts and the number of publicly traded REITs continues to grow, trends that are making it ever harder for investors to get a handle on
the popular asset class.