The phrase "a separate asset class" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts to refer to a distinct category of investments that have different characteristics and risk profiles.
Example: "Real estate is often considered a separate asset class that can provide diversification in an investment portfolio."
Alternatives: "a distinct asset category" or "an independent asset class".
Eventually, he foresees patents being valued as a separate asset class, like real estate or securities.
Once viewed as a separate asset class where investors were encouraged to park some money to properly diversify, these markets have become much more Balkanized.
Congress may resolve the ambiguities engendered by Howey by simply requiring that at least some digital assets be treated as a separate asset class.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is now considering ways in which it would set regulations for cost recovery for energy storage, perhaps by creating a separate asset class for storage.
Key policy recommendations: Revised utility and grid operator procurement policies that allow competition from energy storage technologies, tax benefits for energy storage projects, and the creation of a separate asset class for energy storage.
The three key regulatory and policy recommendations were identified as an alignment of renewable policies to that of ESS; creating a separate asset class for ESS and associated rules for regulated and competitive operations; and standardising assessment frameworks, connection and operational procedures for the use of ESS.
He looked at three portfolios: a classic 60/40 US equity/Treasury bonds split; a Yale-like portfolio with seven separate asset classes; and a portfolio with international diversification but without the illiquid private-equity, hedge-fund and real-estate portions.
Its performance lagged that of other groups who appeared to be more in tune with the "new paradigm" of the late 1990s.At the time, GMO forecasted likely future levels of returns from ten separate asset classes.
The rise in correlation between individual stocks, but also between completely separate asset classes like stocks and gold or stocks and oil, "has been one of the big themes of the investment climate this year," said Marc Chandler, a market strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York.
These variations are not considered separate asset classes - the asset class remains US equity.
For example, the Zaslows form separate entities to hold separate asset classes so they can all see how they are diversified and how each class performs.
