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(Orion/Brinker Capital) It is no secret that bonds have had a tough couple of years. They experienced back-to-back negative returns in 2021 and 2022, while exhibiting higher volatility and higher correlations with equity markets. Altogether, it raises the issue of whether they can continue to serve their historic role: a low-volatility ballast within a portfolio that diversifies away from equities. Even heralding 2023 as the "year for bonds," as many did, seems in retrospect premature, if not outright wrong.1