“They’d have stocks, but also bonds to balance that out…instead of losing 30%, they maybe lost 10 or 15 because long bonds were rallying”

How I Invest with David Weisburd · E444: President of NEPC on Picking Fund Managers, Venture Capital, and AI Risk

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What was described

Allocate portfolio across multiple betas by holding stocks and long-duration corporate bonds together to balance equity drops with bond rallies

During 2008 crisis equity loss ~30% vs combined loss ~10-15% when long bonds were included

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“They've got about 57% of their portfolio that are invested in equities and stocks, about 8% in bonds”
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“Our portfolio is 80 equities, 20 debt. ... we will be compensated more and make more money effectively off equities than we will bonds.”
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“The bond market is a multiple of the size of the equity market. Oh, yes. 3x, 4x, something like that?”
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