If the single asset class exceeds 25%, there must be other assets invested to hedge the primary asset class driver.
Its biggest single asset is its stunning coastline and last year the country had its best tourist season ever.
Stock investors can manage risk by buying a diverse basket of shares, but a college student bets on a single asset: himself.
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As a general rule, wealth managers tell clients to avoid having more than 20% to 30% of their wealth in a single asset.
If you invest in single asset class index funds like the Vanguard Total US Stock Market index or the Spartan International Index at Fidelity, you can easily compare the performance of your individual holdings to the market index they track.
Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people.
For most households, home equity remains their largest single financial asset.
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Three of the four worst returns occurred in single-asset class portfolios.
This dynamic, coupled with the increasing sophistication and specialization of the CRO ecosystem, has enabled the creation of single-asset deals with defined liquidity paths via structured buyouts.
That gives him significant say over the U.S. company's single most valuable asset.
Bundled services relationships where a single firm provides asset allocation, manager selection, performance reporting, custody and trading are fraught with dangers.
I'm afraid, are inviting serious harm to what is arguably the single most important asset that makes our military second to none in the world - namely, the ability to use in real time and with great effect intelligence.
If the Dresdner plan now goes ahead, Germany's retail financial markets will take a big stride towards Allfinanz: the provision of banking, insurance and asset management by single institutions.
Determining your ideal asset allocation is the single most important investment decision you will make.
This represents asset growth of 85% in a single year.
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Secretary HENRY PAULSON (Treasury Department): This troubled asset purchase program on its own is the single most effective thing we can do to help homeowners, the American people, and to stimulate our economy.
The high-beta rich often have more than half of their wealth in one asset, whether it is a company or a single stock.
Bank stocks sold in single digits, which is where we all believed they belonged, at net asset value adjusted for Third World loans and sour real estate paper.
However, I also do not look at one single time period (like the nearly 38 year period from 1972 through 2010) and presume that every asset class just happened to have a proper balance of its bull and bear extremes.
Some providers offer a single, one-size-fits-all or model portfolio, while others offer some customization at the asset allocation level, implemented through a series of proprietary funds-of-funds or feeder funds.
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To be sure, there are more than a few gaping holes in this argument, not the least of which is the fact that the financial crisis that took down asset prices around the globe is not even remotely the same as a natural disaster that hit a single area.
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