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Portfolio Review: Diversification and Asset Allocation

Posted on May 16, 2008

Diversification and Asset Allocation are two of my very favoriteconcepts. One way to view these concepts is through broad marketcategories such as Agricultural Investments, Energy Investments,Emerging Markets, Non-U.S. Developed Markets, Absolute ReturnInvestments, and U.S. Stocks. This blog post describes how I'm playingeach of these categories.BeforeI get into the specifics, I want to give some high level perspective.First of all, I believe portfolio diversification can reduce downsiderisk while still leaving plenty of room for upside gains. I don't takeit so far as to calculate optimal port...

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