Allocation
Emergency Funds and Their Place in Allocation
An emergency fund is the liquid layer held outside the risk portfolio so unplanned spending never forces asset sales — with sizing frameworks documented and…
Allocation and Portfolio Strategy
The structural layer of a portfolio: setting target weights, choosing rebalancing bands, correcting drift, and what each move costs in tax and spread.
Allocation
Risk Parity: The Mechanics and the Criticisms
Risk parity equalizes each asset class's contribution to portfolio risk instead of its capital share — a structure whose leverage draws the sharpest published…
Allocation
Asset Location: Which Assets Go in Which Accounts
Asset location places each holding in the account type where its tax treatment costs least — a framework with documented gains, stated assumptions, and known…
Allocation
Home Bias: Why Portfolios Tilt Domestic
Home bias is the documented gap between the domestic share of investor portfolios and those markets' share of world capitalization, with explanations and costs…
Allocation
The 60/40 Portfolio: The History and the Debate
The 60/40 portfolio is balanced investing's reference mix, anchored by a 1986 pension study, shaken by 2022, and defended and criticized in roughly equal…