CIE’s 2015 Wealth Management Symposium – Opportunities, will take a critical approach to revisiting the industry’s traditional beta-driven bond and equity portfolio, and explore how investment returns can be achieved in a low-rate, low-return world.

With the US Fed having ended its own QE program, we are in a world where governments remain heavily indebted, consumer spending is lacklustre, and corporates are happy to return capital to yield-hungry shareholders rather than invest in future growth – all of which suggest a period of lower returns in equity indices.

The outlook looks equally as challenging for bonds. After 30 years of steadily declining rates, bond yields have reached unprecedented lows. What happens to returns in bond indices when rates rise?

As investors worldwide think through the set of issues confronting us – does a ‘new normal’ require a new approach?

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