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The 60/40 portfolio is outdated

You may have seen in the press recently BlackRock Chairman & CEO, Larry Fink is challenging the 73 year old investing principle of the 60/40 portfolio. In fact in his 2025 annual letter to investors he says Diversification has been called the “only free lunch.” It was the motivating idea that led Nobel Prize-winning economists like Harry Markowitz and Bill Sharpe to develop Modern Portfolio Theory, which became the foundation for the standard portfolio of roughly 60% stocks and 40% bonds. Generations of investors have done well following this approach, owning a mix of the entire market rather than individual securities. ...

April 16th, 2025|