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Inflation is rising: How to reposition your retirement accounts
Yes, inflation is rising, and retirees must now consider repositioning not just their short-term safe-haven investments (we’ll talk more about that in part two) but their entire portfolio as well (which we’ll focus on here). Well that, conveniently enough, is the subject (and title) of a paper soon to be published in the Journal of Portfolio Management that was co-authored by Campbell Harvey, a professor at Duke University, and several of his colleagues affiliated with Man Group. What more, Harvey and his co-authors found that no individual equity sector, including the energy sector, offers significant protection against high and rising inflation.
