Sentences with phrase «much of an allocation»

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But it makes sense to boost that allocation now because years of under - performance have made foreign stocks so much more affordable relative to American ones — in Asia and Europe and in emerging markets from South Korea to Turkey.

Tanking is obviously an inexact science, and has much more to do with lineup construction and the allocation of playing time than anything else — players are professional athletes, and convincing them to lose on purpose to bring younger, cheaper new talent to their franchise isn't exactly a great sell.

And I realized a lot of times I would have to apologize to my clients, saying, «We don't actually have as much allocation for you, you wanted to put in $ 20 million but we only have $ 2 million left.»

Long - term portfolio allocation science dictates only a small percentage of assets in cash, so as much as 90 percent to 95 percent of most portfolios are subject to huge short - term losses.

(Of course, accounts set up for different purposes, such as college costs coming soon versus retirement coming much later, may have different allocations.)

Successful adopters of salary transparency audit their payrolls and adjust any inconsistencies first, making for a much more accurate (and less arbitrary) allocation of compensation.

This means your asset allocation on the remaining portion of your investment portfolio needs to change or else you might have too much of your net worth exposed to equities.

I have ignored reasons that might justify lower discount rates or higher GDP adjustments for China mainly because the purpose of this essay is to explain why the U.S. multiple is so much higher than China's, and of course these reasons exist, but I think whatever the correct ratio should be, there is no question that advanced economies always justify higher multiples than developing economies because they tend to be economically more diversified and politically more stable, and they usually have institutions, including clearer legal and regulatory frameworks, more sophisticated capital allocation processes, less rigid financial systems, and smaller state sectors (which make smooth adjustment, one of the most valuable and undervalued components of long - term growth, more likely).

Some of these early investors are already flipping their allocations in the round for as much as double the offering price.

A bond allocation comprised primarily of individual bonds provides much more flexibility as it relates to duration management and tax efficiency.

Yet despite emerging market stocks representing about one - eighth of global equity market capitalization, the vast majority of investors has much smaller allocations to them, dramatically underweighting the asset class.

It seems like much of the retirement planning advice out there focuses on distribution rates, the percentage of income to replace, asset allocation changes or a determination of how much risk is suitable for a retiree's portfolio without ever considering actual living expenses or spending needs.

Changing the asset allocation slightly, however, tightened the range of those swings without giving up too much in the way of long - term performance.

My general answer: Much of the region's news helps support my view that now may be a good time to consider raising allocations to eurozone equities, and to stocks in Germany in particular.

ARKK's performance in 2017 was at least partially driven by its allocation to the Bitcoin Investment Trust and the notorious «FANG» stocks (Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google / Alphabet) that have recently had so much influence on the direction of the U.S. stock market.

We've had some market volatility this year that we've seen that may make some investors uncomfortable, but the reality of it is, the conversations we were having up to this point is, make sure you rebalance your portfolio to make sure that you're not taking on too much equity risk, and that your asset allocation is aligned to meet your goals.

Millennials also look much better prepared in terms of asset allocation.

Stripped of the mathematical mysticism, the co-variance matrix drives much of the asset allocation process.

Once you've decided how much you can comfortably invest each month and what type of asset allocation is best for you, execute your plan without fail.

I know much has been said about the conventional strategy of passive investing, which is to pick your asset classes according to correlations, rebalance often, and stick to your allocations, whatever the market does.

Our paycheck contributions no longer move the dial as much as when we started investing, since they represent a smaller portion of the total portfolio, but they do help to shift our allocation in the right direction.

Transaction Activity After spending much of 2013 with an equity weighting near the Fund's prospectus maximum of 75 %, we have moved the equity allocation down to 65 %.

A much - noted expert on equity, style and asset allocation, Mr. Bernstein was voted to Institutional Investor magazine's annual «All - America Research Team» eighteen times, and is one of only forty - nine analysts inducted into the Institutional Investor «Hall of Fame».

Over the period that includes the commodity supercycle dating back to 1995, the efficient frontier would have arrived at a very different conclusion: potentially much higher allocations to Canadian stocks at higher levels of volatility.

If you own shares of McDonald's, Johnson & Johnson, an S&P 500 index fund, or any other countless security, when you glance over your reports, you should know exactly why you own them — how much you expect earnings per share to rise over the next decade, management's capital allocation policies (dividends vs. share repurchases vs. debt reduction vs. acquisitions, vs. growing organically), as well a legal and economic trends that might affect your position.

But companies rarely have a flexible approach to capital allocation like this (they usually have a set dividend that they pay out each year, often steadily raising it by a few pennies each year, and then they buy back shares without much mention of value).

«The allocation of corporate profits to stock buybacks deserves much of the blame.

Much of what I observed during my trip reinforces that now may be a good time to consider raising allocations to eurozone equities.

The company uses the principles of Modern Portfolio Theory and asset allocation to create a portfolio of stocks, bonds, and real estate based on how much risk is right for you.

Because as much as 90 % of portfolio performance comes from being properly diversified, asset allocation must be carefully considered.

But Cnaan is right that anyone counting only official congregational social - service programs and specific budget allocations misses much of what churches do.

However, tilting your allocation towards conservative investments too quickly can expose your financial security to a much larger risk, which is the loss of your purchasing power at the time you really need it.

Though I don't know how much of that was Nemeth versus Columbus wanting a kings ransom for that allocation spot.

It is this notion of allocation and making choices and consequences around money that are such a difficult part of financial lives, it's why there are so much financial drama in families?

The Department for Education is planning for a distribution of high needs funding to local authorities that is more formulaic, and less reliant on past levels of allocation that have become outdated, and on local decisions on spending that have partly determined how much is allocated.

All this has a raft of significant consequences: a new parliament and government for England, a written constitution defining the powers of the two tiers, endowment of the Supreme Court with powers to interpret and enforce the federal constitution, transformation of the House of Lords into a federal Senate, negotiation of a framework for revenue allocation, and much more.

For example, greater «choice» in social housing allocations is determined much more by supply of housing than by housing allocations policies.

'' I have seen in Governor Aregbesola a rare determination to bring much out of little, that is why Osun is progressing even with little resources and meagre allocation from the federation account.

When our reporters recently asked people questions about regionalism, they — and we — were surprised by how much the conversation tended to come back to governor Andrew Cuomo's new system of allocation of resources organized by region.

Generally, endowment funds follow a suitably strict policy allocation, which is a set of long - term rules that dictates the asset allocation that will yield the targeted return requirement without taking on too much risk.

He didn't have much say over who to appoint because they are elected by Labour MPs, but the allocation of jobs tells us quite a bit about how he hopes to take on the Coalition.

Now the Ithaca Democrat is a member of the state Legislature, a body that spends much of its time talking about the collection and allocation of state revenues.

«Pretty much any local organization that passed our vetting process got funded,» she said, chalking up her largesse to being one of the first 10 Council members to file her allocation requests this year in March.

Visual Environment, Attention Allocation, and Learning in Young Children: When Too Much of a Good Thing May Be Bad.

For each school, we know the nontargeted, or noncategorical, allocations made for each student who attends the school as well as how much the school received for five targeted groups of students: students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, students eligible for bilingual education programs, students with disabilities, gifted students, and students in vocational education programs.

The rule also could prompt districts to change which of their eligible schools participate in Title I: a district's total allocation of Title I funds is set according to student, not school characteristics, and districts themselves have considerable discretion over how much to concentrate those funds in their poorest schools or to spread them more thinly over more schools.

From a heritage point of view, the James review contained some welcome recommendations — including those on the importance of a much more systematic approach to the collection and upkeep of robust condition data (and the way that this should inform future funding allocations) and maintenance of existing buildings.

But with state policy driving the allocation of the lion's share of school funding, education financing across the country varies significantly among communities in terms of how much is spent, how funding is allocated, and where the money comes from.

Third, in determining the allocation of «effective» teachers, a critical problem is that while we know that good teachers matter enormously and have confidence in our ability to identify good teachers in various ways, we don't have any reliable way to consistently identify good teachers from state capitals — much less from Washington.

«It doesn't give a clear picture as to how much wealth is within a district when we start talking about the allocation of state money,» the Illinois News Network reports state Rep. Steven Reick, R - Woodstock, saying at a legislative committee hearing in August.