Over the weekend I was ask, if EDV can be consider part of my All weather. I did not know.
Here is a 3 line educated reply:
Extended Duration Treasuries (EDV) illustrate the importance of this discipline of money management. Their amplified convexity can create substantial upside in favorable deflationary shocks, but also severe losses when yields rise. They should be treated as a conditional, tactical allocation.
NOT an interchangeable substitute for standard long Treasuries, independent of taxes objetives.
KEY BASICS, If you want to learn more
Building a More Resilient All-Weather Portfolio
A robust All-Weather portfolio must be diversified not only across asset classes, but also across economic regimes.
Growth and inflation interact to shape how assets behave. Falling growth and falling inflation can favor long-duration Treasuries, while rising growth and falling inflation may leave bonds lagging as equities drive returns. The combination of rising growth and rising inflation can create significant pressure on long-duration assets, while falling growth and rising inflation presents a particularly challenging stagflationary environment.
For market participans that trust me and investment leaders, the priority is to assess how portfolio risks behave when economic conditions change
Four practical steps can strengthen allocation discipline:
- Implement risk-budgeting. Evaluate contributions to portfolio volatility and drawdown risk rather than relying on capital weights alone.
- Stress-test economic regimes. Model exposure to growth and inflation scenarios, including sharp interest-rate increases and their potential capital impact.
- Review correlations. Reassess relationships between holdings across regimes; historical diversification may not provide consistent protection under stress.
- Maintain inflation hedges. Evaluate protective pairings and shorter-duration instruments to offset excessive nominal rate sensitivity.
The objective is disciplined resilience: align exposures with economic risks, size positions appropriately, and recognize trade-offs without assuming any allocation can protect against every environment.
Thus, I present a few facts
- High Vol
2. Adding it directly does not improve risk metrics
Details just on the Fixed Income Adaptive Sizing View – not working as well
3. Efficient Frontier
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