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How to Diversify Equities

June 2026
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A portfolio of equities can be diversified by adding strategies with low correlation between the assets. Recently, stock and bond correlation has become significantly positive (i.e., moving together) mitigating the diversification benefit once offered by bonds. To address this, low-correlating assets can be added to the portfolio. As shown below, a 50/50 portfolio split between equities and low-correlating strategies, grew a hypothetical $1M investment to approximately $65M, far outperforming the portfolio that used bonds for “diversification”.

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Key Takeaways
Strategic asset allocation is instrumental to the success of a portfolio.
Correlation between assets is essential in the portfolio construction process.
Splitting an allocation evenly between stocks and low-correlating strategies has historically provided a better return than a 50% stock/50% fixed income allocation.

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