The expected risk premium continued sliding in April for the Global Markets Index (GMI). Today’s revision reflects a drop to a 5.4% annualized increase for the long term – a relatively large cut of 40 basis points from last month’s estimate. The new estimate strengthens the outlook, long featured in these updates, for managing expectations down for globally diversified multi-asset-class portfolios relative to realized returns in recent years.

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