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Asset Allocation

An investment strategy that aims to balance risk and reward by apportioning a portfolio’s assets across equities, fixed income, cash, and alternatives.

Systems Engineering Analogy

Load balancing your balance sheet: routing capital into high-throughput growth nodes (stocks) and resilient fallback buffers (bonds, cash).

Featured in: Book 08: The Allocation Problem
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