The Best Hedged ETFs for Lower-Risk Investors and Retirees

Stop Domino Effect. Risk Management and Insurance Concept.

For decades, the classic 60/40 portfolio of stocks and bonds was considered the gold standard for balanced investing.

Much of its success, however, coincided with an extraordinary macroeconomic backdrop: a more than 40-year period of generally falling interest rates that began in the early 1980s.