The current low level of interest rates provides investors with a very low starting point for forecasting future market returns.

This paper considers the role for alternative asset allocations in a 60/40 balanced portfolio in different economic scenarios over the medium term.

Australian investors’ portfolios are commonly allocated between two extremes: low-risk cash and fixed interest at one end, and high-risk equities (predominantly Australian equities) at the other, leaving a rather large gap in the middle.

This is unfortunate, because there is an income-producing asset that sits comfortably in that gap. This is The Missing Asset Class.