allocation
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Another trope Hartnett identifies in asset allocation is “Anything But China.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
That £27.4m is being spent via Stormont departments, with the biggest allocation of £13m going to the Department for the Economy.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Cedars-Sinai spokeswoman Sally Stewart added in an emailed statement that “changing the allocation formula risks undermining the system that Measure B was designed to protect and sustain.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Seats would be awarded by moving down that ranking until each party had filled its national allocation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
However, World Bank members, who came from many countries to meet in Moscow, were divided about the allocation.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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The rise of zombie funds could lead to more institutional and high-net-worth investors reducing their private-equity allocations, O’Connor said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The asset manager is slightly overweight to Japan in its allocations, partly because the yen is at a 40-year low.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
But the fund also has sizable allocations to the industrial and consumer discretionary sectors, with 30% of its assets in those two sectors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The $48 billion BlackRock Strategic Income Opportunities Portfolio Fund has sizable allocations to mortgage securities—agency and nonagency—and non-U.S. debt.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Shift schedules, fund allocations, project juggling, out-and-out looting of other projects . . . he'd never pulled so many stunts in his life.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Vocabulary lists containing allocation
Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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