Abstract
The classic balanced portfolio for more than 7 decades has been the blend of equities and bonds in the ratio of 60−40%, respectively. But declining interest rates have forced investors to divert from this investing strategy and look over other alternatives. This has affected bond returns. And once again due to pandemic interest rates were cut down to near zero resulting in very little returns in bonds. To overcome this, alternative investment opportunities should be looked for and several factors which are important in deciding the future investments are to be considered. Some of them are interest rates, valuations, volatility, etc., Based upon the factors and other parameters, the best alternatives will be Equities (cyclical industry, stocks providing dividends, etc.), Corporate bonds (with higher investment grades), and government bonds of emerging markets (like China and Peru). These alternatives will act as better investment alternatives to traditional 60/40 asset allocation in the current scenario.
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