March 17, 2025

Asset Allocation Insights - March 2025

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Challenging macro, equity market rotation and credit stress are countered by diversification opportunities from decoupling markets and interesting shifts in alternatives

Key highlights:

  • Diverging growth, persistent inflation risks and global uncertainty at record high
  • Market leadership shifts as US equities lose dominance
  • US Credit markets show signs of strain
  • The US dollar breaks in February its usual risk-off pattern
  • Alternatives benefit from structural shifts, commodities provide diversification to stocks and bonds
  • Rising volatility, shifting correlations and decoupling markets

Published quarterly, this report covers:

  • Key macroeconomic influences and their implications for financial markets
  • Core drivers across asset classes – and what they are indicating
  • Cross-asset analysis – expectations, risk premiums, return and risk, correlations and more · Implications for asset allocation and portfolio construction
  • Market analysis provided exclusively via our indices, and LSEG and Lipper fund flows data – enabling apples-to-apples comparisons across asset classes and global markets

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