Strategies for a bear market

Singapore

MARKET conditions are making correlations less effective for building effective portfolios.

For many investors, professional or otherwise, one of the first pieces of advice we heard was in the form of an old adage: "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." Meaning we must diversify our portfolios across multiple asset classes so that if one asset class falls off the edge, we still have the remainder sitting in the truck, moving our portfolio to where it needs to be by the time we need it.