About this Lecture

This lecture instructs IMAC candidates on the characteristics and use of real assets in multi-asset portfolios including:

• the advantages and disadvantages of investing in real assets;
• evaluating real assets in the context of asset allocation, liquidity and tolerance for complexity;
• the different real asset types, and the advantages and disadvantages of investing in each;
• the risk and return characteristics of real assets;
• the relationship between real assets and inflation;
• the investment case for including public equity, public debt, private equity and private debt in a real asset portfolio;
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