The phrase "large allocation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a significant portion of resources, such as money, time, or personnel, that has been designated for a specific purpose. For example, "The company gave a large allocation of funds for research and development."
For one thing, it is the source of a largely redundant and disproportionately large allocation of the world's precious resources to war, militarism and wasteful production of the means of death and destruction.
By April, Twitter had selected Goldman as lead underwriter, guaranteeing it a hefty fee and a large allocation of shares.
Like more traditional models, they maintained a large allocation to fixed income, but weighted it heavily toward Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, whose yields rise with inflation.
"While I wouldn't tend to put a very large allocation there, I believe in having that type of insurance for the funds," she said.
None of the fund managers interviewed for this article said they funneled trading commissions to a firm, but one manager said it was common to direct more legitimate business through an underwriter after receiving a large allocation.
He advised investors to be "overweighted toward risk" via a large allocation to emerging stock markets, shares of smaller American companies and sectors like basic materials, heavy industry and banking that tend to outperform in a strong economy.
But for big funds, even large allocations of very popular offerings make only a small difference in overall annual returns.
The winners will be the big investors who receive large allocations of shares, among whom will be foreign governments who control vast sovereign wealth funds that tend to snap up these sorts of share offers.
The sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), makes large allocations to U.S. debt and equity markets, and in privately held stakes in many U.S. technology firms and investment funds dedicated to infrastructure.
In a post-Madoff world, funds are typically required to have external administrators to receive large allocations.
The great failing during the boom years of the 1990s was that Wall Street routinely gave large allocations to favored customers.
