The aggressive strategy is the more equity focused version of our Moderate Countercyclical portfolio and will seek to generate higher returns with the understanding that stocks tend to generate strong 5 and 10 year rolling returns, but also seeks to protect the investor
from substantial downturns during periods in the business cycle when large downturns are most probable.
By contrast, if you think Citi's definition of «global» firm identifies firms farther down the globalization path, they're likely to have
substantial presences in Asia and the MidEast — areas anything but suffering
from the Western economies»
downturn.