How to use a 'barbell approach' to beat market uncertainty

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As the market gears up for a Federal Reserve policy decision and May's Consumer Price Index (CPI) report signals that inflation may be cooling, its trajectory could change.

JPMorgan Chief ETF Strategist Jon Maier joins Wealth! to give insight into the top ETF picks to protect against uncertainty in the market.

"What I would do is have a barbell approach. So have some portion of your portfolio exposed to growth quality names, names that are companies that are less reliant on the capital markets because obviously rates are high, companies that have strong cash flows, that have good earnings and are less susceptible to the business cycle. So quality names, which I think a large cap blend would make sense. Also on the short side, on the fixed income side, we have a fund called JPST (JPST). JPST has run out of our liquidity group and has a yield of over 5%," Maier tells Yahoo Finance.

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This post was written by Nicholas Jacobino