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Which asset classes are an effective and reliable way to hedge against inflation?
Tsonev, B. (2022) Which asset classes are an effective and reliable way to hedge against inflation?
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| Abstract: | Inflation is one of the main challenges businesses and individual face in the current economic environment. With inflation rates continuing to increase, the purchasing power of investors declines. The main objective of this research is to investigate whether asset classes like gold, indices and cryptocurrencies are effective and reliable when it comes to their inflation hedging properties. Using quantitative methods like the Fisher (1930) methodology, Pearson’s correlation and linear regression combined with fundamental analysis, the inflation hedging capabilities of cryptocurrencies, gold and the S&P500 index are analyzed versus the inflation rates of USA and the countries within the EU. The results show that cryptocurrencies are too unreliable to be considered an inflation hedge and S&P500 is the overall best performer. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | International Business Administration BSc (50952) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/92687 |
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