bonds have bounced back from a phenomenally bad 2022 with the ishares core us aggregate bond index ticker agg up 26 so far this year that has helped balanced portfolios rebound last year a 6040 portfolio blending the sp 500 index and the agg registered a 16 loss but so far in 2023 it has returned 39 so do investment advisors feel comfortable putting their clients back in balanced portfolios and what are they doing with the alternatives that became an increasingly common and prominent part of portfolios