Institutional investors are taking a hard look at their alternative risk premium strategies after poor performance in 2018.

Managers of the actively managed multiasset, long/short, factor-based strategies favored by asset owners as portfolio diversifiers suffered last year from what sources said was a rare combination of an unfavorable macroeconomic environment, anxiety about rising inflation and heightened market volatility, which affected returns.

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