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Asset Allocation1

There are approximately 41,000 listed companies around the world. This number doesn't even begin to include the even larger market of derivatives based on these companies.

With so many choices, how do people decide what asset classes to buy, and how many % to allocate to each?

Why not just put everything in stocks (e.g. the S&P 500)?

To answer this question, we need to understand volatility, risk and diversification.

You may also want to read about my investment portfolio.

DNS settings for serving Github Pages over Cloudflare

Update (20/12/20) - Cloudflare proxying prevents SSL Certificate renewal

When the SSL certificate (provisioned by Github automatically for the custom domain you specified, via Let's Encrypt) expired on 18/12/20, I started getting errors from Cloudflare.

Looking deeper, I realized Github was having trouble provisioning the SSL certificate.

The solution was to disable Cloudflare proxying. Upon doing so, I was able to get an SSL certificate provisioned for the root domain, nicholaslyz.com.