The Riskalyze Report: Advisors embrace no-flation

February 2nd – 8th 2015

Winners (advisor flows TO these investments increased substantially):  

• Aggregate Bond Index (AGG, BND)
• Chevron (CVX)
• Apple (AAPL)

Losers (advisor flows FROM these investments increased substantially):

• TIPS (TIP)
• Nothing notable
• Nothing Notable

Josh here – What do you do, as a portfolio manager, when inflation expectations plunge through the floor? You buy bonds. You may also lighten up on TPIS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities). And in fact, my colleagues spent last week doing both of those things as you can see from the above Riskalyze data aggregated from thousands of FAs.

Also interesting, Chevron, a top buy from the prior week, is still in the winners list. So is Apple, which put up one of the most astounding earnings quarters in the history of American business.

You’ll notice no other sales hitting the losers list this week – no, I didn’t get lazy. There was really nothing notable or consistent enough in the data to make the cut, according to Riskalyze CIO Mike McDaniel.

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