Capital Market Assumptions Through a Long-Duration Lens: Key Considerations for Family Offices Over the Next Five Years

With below-average returns expected over the next five years, it’s clear that getting asset allocation right will be essential to delivering on the key challenges of our time: achieving purchasing power parity and avoiding any permanent capital impairment. By using a forward-looking, historically-aware framework for developing long-term return forecasts across asset classes, there are key considerations and underlying themes for family office and long-duration investors to keep in mind to help tackle their strategic and tactical portfolio construction decisions. And being creative with risk can help family office investors hit their return objectives.