We're coming out of one of the largest stock market rallies in recent memory, and while you may have seen a bump in your balance, these dramatic market movements could have also left your asset allocation out of alignment.
This will help ensure the sustainability of the portfolio, and you may find mission alignment in surprising asset classes.
Such dimensions have their foundation in Williamson's discriminating alignment hypothesis, distinguishing "asset specificity", "uncertainty" and "frequency" (Williamson 1985).
During these activities, the philosophy of information asset management is manifested through business alignment to a vision and subsequent architecture elements.
The closer alignment began to encompass other asset classes in the last decade in what has come to be called "risk-on, risk-off" trading.
Even though these predictions are only restricted to a subset of the alignment, they can be an invaluable asset whenever a modeling process is very sensitive to alignment accuracy.
While some investment funds do have incentive-based fees – including the famous "2 and 20" for many hedge funds – the alignment is still weak because more assets always means more potential fees.
Alignment refers to the direct linkage of information asset management efforts to business strategies, and the measurement of information and knowledge projects against anticipated benefits.
To deliver what was previously planned, three main drivers must be in place: quality of the scope definition; alignment of the business strategy; and operability of the asset delivered.
Instead, so-called stereo blindness — in which the eyes are out of alignment so the brain cannot fuse the images from each one — may actually be an asset.
