CFA Webinar: Wednesday webinar at one: Inflation and the stock-bond correlation – where to from here?

CFA Webinar

Last year’s surge in consumer prices and the forceful response from global central banks triggered the longest-lasting co-movement of share and bond prices since the late 1990s. For most of the past two decades, equities and sovereign debt had been considered complementary securities, between which investors alternated depending on their current risk appetites.

However, as rising inflation threatened to erode future cashflows of both asset classes alike and interest rates converged toward the levels of earnings yields, 60/40 portfolios recorded their worst annual performance since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

With CPI growth projected to fall significantly and traders already beginning to price in the first rate cuts toward the end of this year, market participants will wonder whether the familiar inverse interaction of equity and fixed income returns will resume, or whether the two will continue to move in the same direction.

In this webinar, Christoph Schon, Senior Principal of Applied Research at Qontigo, analyses the impact of inflation and monetary policy on cross-asset correlations over the past sixty years and provides an outlook on where things might be heading in the future.

Christoph Schon, CFA, CIPM
Senior Principal, Applied Research
Qontigo