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Unless you are borrowing at the risk free rate (levering your bonds), I don’t think this is the best advice, unless you are open to holding junk bonds. Your Sharpe ratio is largely irrelevant [(returns - risk free rate) / std dev]. What you want is to optimize your Sortino ratio [loss / std dev]. Or, put another way, it’s more preferable that you make 100% returns one year, and lose 25% the next than to make 25% each year.

The bonds are going to really drag on your returns and since bonds don’t seem correlated with equities anymore, they might not even be an equity hedge. Risk parity portfolios are designed to solve this problem through leverage.



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