HSBC Life, APG: How inflation is changing asset allocations
Understanding the relationship between asset prices and inflation is more crucial than ever for investors, but using data from the last decade to calculate asset correlation may not be wise, said HSBC Life’s CIO.
Amid the current financial landscape, deriving an asset's correlation to inflation demands a far more nuanced perspective than simply relying on data from the past 10 years, according to William Chan, chief investment officer at HSBC Life.
“In this new environment, the assessment of what constitutes a low correlation needs to be made quite prudently and you need to look at diversifying into assets that will be favoured by the macro scenario as opposed to relying on statistical …
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