Financial professionals use allocation rates to let their clients know how funds are allocated in an investment account.
You have $10,000 in an investment account with a particular advisor (Nice! Staying away from Starbucks is paying off). In the account, you have $7,500 in U.S. stocks, $1,500 in foreign stocks and $1,000 in treasuries. So in this case, your allocation rates would be 75% U.S. stocks, 15% foreign stocks and 10% bonds.
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listen up it's lots of investments stocks bonds exposure to risk and reward [Risk and reward punch man in face]
everywhere energy, telecom, insurance, real estate, banking, chemicals, tech, retail not
enough diversity yet well those are just sectors or industries and there's a
whole bunch of them what about geography geographic diversity the US, Russia, China
Europe someday maybe Mars Elon what do you think well maybe exposures to [Elon Musk floating in space]
different currencies or commodities cycles as the diversity you seek hmm
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would you want such diversity? well the idea is that you mitigate risk by being
diverse the don't put all your eggs in one basket thing if one investment goes [Value of investment graph appears]
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