2025 is proving to be a turning point for global markets, with geopolitical shifts challenging long-held assumptions about the US dollar, government bonds, and global trust. “There is more at stake than tariffs,” opines Inigo Fraser Jenkins, Co-Head Institutional Solutions at AllianceBernstein (AB). “A geopolitical realignment is taking place that ends the US-led post-WWII order”.
AB argues that investors must rethink risk allocation in this new regime—putting greater focus on active strategies, private markets, and alternative hedges.
“It is no longer entirely obvious what ‘reducing risk’ even means and what counts as a defensive asset,” says Fraser Jenkins. “We think there remains a case for risk assets, for equities, private assets and active return streams.”
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