PA Video Insight: Stocks and bonds for those concerned about stocks and bonds

Alexander Healy’s logic is fairly straightforward: as trends change, markets change and as markets change, investment opportunities change, therefore identifying the trends and having a diversified investment approach is key.

‘Long term’ to most professional investors is at least three years, with many looking out over considerably longer timeframes. But Natixis GAM’s Alexander Healy says one year is about as far out as he wants to look with five days as his short-term horizon.

As markets change and evolve, he explains why this timeframe works for his brand new, trend-following, managed futures proposition. He also explains where he invests in stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities and short-term interest rates, including some of his preferred sort positions.

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