Q3 Outlook: Summertime for investors?

09 Aug 2021

  LGIM

LGIM: Q3 Outlook: Summertime for investors?

Emiel van den Heiligenberg, Head of Asset Allocation

We continue to favour staying long equities, and are prepared to increase our exposure in a dip, as investors bask in the sunshine of a global economy in mid-cycle

 From a strategic perspective, the current market environment is increasingly challenging for asset allocator

In addition, in some of the portfolios we manage, we take a dynamic approach to managing risk through the cycle. Our investment framework, for example, helps us to take more market risk when we are early cycle – the moments when valuations are attractive and the economy just emerged from recession (we have just been in such a period).

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