A majority of participants in the Apollo Academy class on my 2024 Economic and Capital Markets Outlook said that they are planning to allocate more to alternatives in 2024. In a poll taken during the live class on December 20, 59.7% of respondents said they planned to increase alts allocations in the year-ahead, while 20.3% said they didn’t plan to augment allocations (see chart).
Interestingly, a small majority of participants, 51.4%, said they were “more concerned” about the future course of inflation when planning client allocations than they were before the “Fed pivot” on December 13. Another 35.3% said they were “less concerned,” while 13.3% said they weren’t concerned (see chart). These results point to an interesting paradox: By signaling that they weren’t as concerned with the course of inflation as they had previously been, the FOMC’s board members may have inadvertently prompted an economic boomlet, leading to the increase of the very thing of which they themselves had expressed a decrease—concerns over inflation.
We asked a similar question about participants’ expectations of a US recession after the “Fed pivot.” A majority, 54.8%, said they were “less concerned” about a recession in 2024 than before the pivot; 32.4% were “more concerned” than previously; 12.8% said they weren’t concerned.
Survey taken from live participants in the Apollo Academy class on the 2024 Economic and Capital Markets Outlook on December 20, 2023. Results based on 672 total votes.Survey taken from live participants in the Apollo Academy class on the 2024 Economic and Capital Markets Outlook on December 20, 2023. Results based on 711 total votes.Survey taken from live participants in the Apollo Academy class on the 2024 Economic and Capital Markets Outlook on December 20, 2023. Results based on 690 total votes.
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