A look at the performance of major asset classes in 2024, highlighting the strong gains in US equities and emerging markets, while inflation-indexed government bonds experienced significant losses.
US equities led global markets by a wide margin in 2024, a year of mixed results overall for the major asset classes , based on a set of ETFs. US equities were the upside outlier last year, posting a 23.8% total return. The strong gain marks a second straight year of double-digit gains. By contrast, US fixed-income ended the year with a gain, but the 1.4% total return weakened from 2023’s 5.7% advance.
Emerging markets (EM) also saw solid gains, with various corners of foreign bond markets performing well. The biggest loss for the major asset classes in 2024: inflation-indexed government bonds ex-US (WIP), which tumbled 8.7%. GMI extended the rally in 2024 with a softer-but-still-strong 14.1% increase. GMI is an unmanaged benchmark maintained by CapitalSpectator.com that holds all the major asset classes (except cash) in market-value weights via ETFs. GMI represents a competitive benchmark for multi-asset-class portfolios. Comparing GMI with US stocks (VTI) and bonds (BND) over the trailing one-year window continues to reflect a middling performance
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