Listen to our experts explain the framework

Portfolio consultants Mark Cintolo and Sean Kaukas introduce a new framework for understanding equity market performance based on inflation and the economic growth cycle.

• The framework uses the two dimensions of inflation and cyclicality to describe four economic regimes.
• The four quadrants each align with industry sectors that tend to do well in that scenario.
• The framework uses the historical risk-adjusted returns for all S&P 1500^® industries during unexpectedly high and low inflation regimes and unexpectedly high and low growth regimes to assign an inflation and a growth score to each industry.
• The consultants review these regimes and a range of charts to provide insight related to equity positioning for an evolving inflationary environment and various landing scenarios.