Certain asset classes have not been investing in European companies because there has not been a track record of success.
And in this harsh climate on Wall Street, investors may need to rethink some of their basic assumptions about certain asset classes and diversification.
He said Vanguard does not try to time the market by overemphasizing or underemphasizing certain asset classes in its target-date offerings.
"Banks just have to get smaller, so they're lending less and getting out of certain asset classes," said David Abrams, head of European nonperforming loan investments at Apollo Global Management in London.
Standard Chartered said it had withdrawn conditional proposals to rescue Whistlejacket because of a number of factors, including "the pace of continuing deterioration in the market for certain asset classes and the impracticality of completing any proposal within the confines of the receivership as it has evolved".
The firm has since ended speculative trading in certain asset classes and reduced its investment banking pay.
Barclays' iShares, its index ETF business, offers low-cost, easy entry to various baskets of stocks and bonds, as well as to certain asset classes like gold.
When a portfolio is created, advisors typically will use certain asset classes like large stocks, international and bonds.
That said, this period of market tumult is a good time to check up on your account, as swings in the market might leave certain asset classes overweighed and others underweighted.
Such investments send signals to the markets that certain securities or valuations of certain companies or asset classes may be overvalued, perhaps tempering what may be too much enthusiasm that prices will continue to rise.
