Hargrave: Cap long-term crypto allocation at maximum 10% of portfolio
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Media Shower CEO John Hargrave discusses portfolio allocation frameworks from his book 'The Intelligent Crypto Investor'.
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“The basic approach is we recommend a basic, highly diversified portfolio, let's say, 60% stocks, 40% bonds, right? Just kind of your traditional portfolio, highly diversified, meaning, you know, an all stock index fund and an all bond index fund. We start there. And then we say, let's take a small slice of that pie and let's devote it to high quality crypto assets. So if you want to dip a toe in the water, this might be two and a half percent of your portfolio is put into Bitcoin. If you wanted to do a little more, maybe you do another two and a half percent in Ethereum. And if you want to do more, you might do maybe another up to five percent in other high quality crypto assets using the frameworks I just, I talked about for analyzing them. So that's a maximum of 10% of our overall portfolio in high quality crypto assets held for the long term.”
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