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title: SafeHaven Assets in COVID-19
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5013017/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5013017
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5013017
featured: 2024-11-13
citations: unknown
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# SafeHaven Assets in COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic showed that gold, Treasury Bonds, and the Euro were effective safe haven assets in reducing risk during the equities bear market.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5013017
- Identifier: SSRN 5013017
- Released: 2024-11-08
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 74 (2024-11-13): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-11-13/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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