JPMorgan Asset Says Cash Better Than Stocks for First Time in Decade

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Cash isn’t only a safe place to invest, it now offers a better risk-adjusted return than equities, according to JPMorgan Asset Management.

That was highlighted by the firm’s multi-asset strategy team, with $260 billion under management, which upgraded its recommendationBloomberg Terminal on U.S. cash to overweight for 2019. For the first time in a decade, investors can get a lot more from safe, liquid securities than from the S&P 500 Index, adjusted for volatility, they argued.