Central Banks Are Ramping Up Their Risk Taking

  • Banks are allocating more to non-traditional assets: survey
  • Change of investment strategy prompted by low interest rates
Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
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Central banks are ramping up their risk taking.

The days of plain old bonds and gold are over as central banks bet some of their trillions of dollars of foreign reserves on mortgage-backed securities, corporate debt, equities and emerging-market debt.