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May 25, 2026

Strengthen Your Core

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This report advocates for strengthening core investment portfolios through broad diversification and regular rebalancing to navigate volatility. It highlights that holding excess cash carries significant opportunity costs compared to balanced allocations across equities, bonds, and alternatives.

Key Takeaways

  • 1.Building a diversified core portfolio helps maintain long-term focus through significant market volatility and geopolitical risks.
  • 2.Broad diversification across asset classes, geographies, and sectors is essential for compounding returns and wealth growth.
  • 3.Rebalancing and risk management strategies, including allocations to gold and alternatives, improve portfolio resilience.

Table of Contents

  • Strategic: Strengthen your core
  • Video: Strengthen the core: Review your goals
  • Global asset class preferences definitions
  • Appendix
  • Risk information
  • Generic investment research – Risk information

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Authors

Sagar Khandelwal

Securities

MSCI All Country World IndexMXCNMSCI JapanMSCI EMU IndexXAU

Themes

Portfolio Resilience and Core ConstructionCost of Market Inactivity (Cash Drag)Geopolitical and Technological Uncertainty

Regions

GlobalEuropeAsia PacificUnited StatesChinaJapan