In many respects, the first quarter of 2021 followed the performance of the final quarter of 2020: shares of small and medium-sized companies as well as developing countries continued to outperform; shares of cyclical industries also rallied strongly, whereas so-called ‚stay-at-home stocks‘ or shares of companies with high-quality and less cyclical earnings underperformed. China and Hong Kong saw an exuberant bull market.
The final quarter of 2020 followed the good performance of previous quarters. Particularly corporate bonds (which were badly hit in the spring and whose returns were far behind those of government bonds) saw a massive recovery. This recovery was so strong that our investment components, which mainly contain corporate bonds, ended the year with higher total returns than those consisting mainly of government bonds. While this is quite normal, the crash in the spring of 2020 once again showed that corporate bonds should not be seen as „crash insurance“ – a fact that should definitely be taken into account when constructing quality investment portfolios.
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