More investors are considering broadening their approach to diversifying equity risk to include strategies such as long duration bonds, managed futures, alternative risk premia, and tail risk hedging. However, it’s important for investors to know in what types of environments each strategy is more likely to work and in what environments each are likely to be less effective.

Investors are more likely to reach their long-term goals if they remain invested and avoid short-term decisions that may take them off course.

Retirement planning isn’t easy. As more and more people approach retirement age, they’re turning to their financial advisors to help them tackle the difficult task of turning their savings into an income stream that will help fund their retirement goals for the rest of their lives.