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Core-satellite

A portfolio built from a large passive core and a few small active bets: the core determines the result, the satellites are capped by share.

How to read the number

The purpose of the design is the price of being wrong: a failed active idea costs a known share of the portfolio rather than the whole result.

When the metric lies

Without a size rule the satellites swell after a good stretch and quietly become the core: the allocation changes in fact although nobody decided to change it.

Also known as: core and satellites

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