Co-movement of equities and bonds unlikely to last

While the real returns from a wide variety of assets were positive in the first half of this year, we don’t expect the good news to last. We project that those from US equities and government bonds, for example, will both be negative in the second half of 2019, before diverging in 2020 and 2021.

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