Wealth Protection Portfolio - What's Going On
Overarching theme : removal of exposure to US Exceptionalism theme from portfolio. This started with publication of “ Anatomy of Exceptionalism ” on February 15. The portfolio actions entailed selling USD (initiated Jan 26 - the McKinley Factor ), US equities and going long European, Japanese, Indian and Chinese (AI/Tech) stocks instead.
Overall the WMP is short global equities. Cash, Gold and Safe Haven assets are 20%-40% of the WMP – depending on risk profile of the client.