Does Schwab have ETF structured portfolios, or ETF research, or something that implements what you are suggesting below?
Its goal is to structure portfolios with uncorrelated investment returns based on risk allocations, rather than asset allocations.
"BNP will be trying to get more guarantees on the loan book and the structured credit portfolio".
Under the new agreement, Fortis will also be taking a smaller part of a structured credit portfolio: 760.0 million euros ($960.0 million), rather than 1.0 billion euros ($1.3 billion) under the previous two agreements, which had also been opposed by shareholders.
Instead of getting the whole of Fortis' Belgian insurance division, BNP will get just 10.0%, while it will have an 11.8% stake in a 3.4 billion euro ($4.3 billion) structured credit portfolio, with guarantees from the Belgian state.
Under the revised terms disclosed Friday, BNP will buy just 10.0% rather than all of Fortis's Belgian insurance division as previously agreed upon, and it will take an 11.8% stake in Fortis's structured credit portfolio with guarantees from the Belgian government against losses.
In a floated structure, portfolio companies don't have to IPO until they are ready.
If you're wiling to give up some yield in exchange for a risk-free portfolio, you can use Treasury bonds to structure a portfolio with coupon payments and maturities that match your income needs.
In structuring a portfolio, "don't gamble with your lunch money," he said.
This shows, it says, that "we did not structure a portfolio that was designed to lose money".
If you consider this in structuring your portfolio, the inevitable morning after will be less painful.
