Toni's Portfolio Atlas / Guide

Intent Framework

Intent explains what a portfolio is trying to do. Families describe what kind of portfolio it is. Risk profile describes how much pain it may create. Intent is the objective.

One portfolio can have many traits, but one dominant intent

A portfolio can be diversified, defensive and growth-oriented at the same time. The intent identifies the dominant purpose. For example, the Permanent Portfolio is diversified and defensive, but its main objective is regime resilience, so its primary intent is All Weather.

All Weather

Distributes risk across regimes.

Capital Preservation

Avoids losses and prioritizes safety.

Growth

Accepts volatility to compound capital.

Intent

GROWTH

Growth

Maximize long-term capital appreciation.

Growth portfolios accept drawdowns and volatility in exchange for higher expected long-term returns. Their engine is usually equities, innovation, business ownership or aggressive risk-taking.

Best for

Long-term investors with high risk tolerance and long time horizons.

Watch out

Growth can suffer deep drawdowns and long recovery periods.

Associated portfolios

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70/30 Portfolio

Growth

A growth-tilted version of the classic balanced portfolio.

80/20 Portfolio

Growth

A high-equity allocation designed to maximize long-term growth while retaining a minimal stabilizing bond component.

ACWI Portfolio

Market beta

A one-equity-fund global portfolio tracking developed and emerging markets through market-cap weighting.

Colonial Extraction Portfolio

Growth

An early-modern wealth system built on territorial expansion, resource extraction, forced labor and imperial trade flows.

Core Four 80/20 Portfolio

Diversification

A simple four-fund portfolio combining global equities, bonds and real estate exposure in a low-maintenance structure.

Crassus Opportunistic Portfolio

Growth

A Roman elite wealth system built on land, embedded labor and aggressive opportunistic acquisition of distressed assets.

Crypto Core Portfolio

Growth

A simple crypto-native core built around bitcoin, ethereum and a small stablecoin reserve.

Crypto Minimalist Portfolio

Growth

The purest crypto allocation in the atlas: 100% bitcoin.

East India Company Portfolio

Growth

An early-modern joint-stock portfolio built around monopoly trade, corporate equity, commodities, credit and sovereign risk.

Fama-French Factor Portfolio

Growth

A practical investable interpretation of the Fama-French factor framework, combining broad market beta with diversified size and value tilts across US and international equities.

Global Market Portfolio

Market beta

A market-cap-weighted portfolio representing the aggregate holdings of all investors, used as the theoretical neutral starting point for asset allocation.

Harvard Endowment Model

Diversification

A large institutional endowment model emphasizing scale, external managers, alternatives, private equity and broad global diversification.

Ivy Portfolio

Diversification

A simplified ETF-based portfolio designed to replicate endowment-style diversification using liquid assets.

Medici Banking Portfolio

Growth

A Renaissance wealth system built on banking, trade finance, currency exchange, political influence and patronage networks.

Merriman Four-Fund Portfolio

Growth

A simplified Merriman portfolio emphasizing small-cap value and diversification.

Momentum Portfolio

Growth

A factor portfolio emphasizing assets or stocks with strong recent performance.

Multi-Factor Portfolio

Growth

A diversified factor portfolio combining value, quality, momentum and size.

Quality Portfolio

Growth

A systematic equity factor portfolio focused on financially strong, profitable and resilient companies.

Silk Road Caravan Portfolio

Growth

A pre-modern trade-route portfolio built around caravans, commodities, credit, protection and precious-metal liquidity.

Small Cap Value Tilt

Growth

A market portfolio tilted toward small-cap value stocks.

Swensen Portfolio

Diversification

A liquid retail adaptation of David Swensen’s Yale endowment philosophy, combining public equities, real estate, long bonds and inflation-linked bonds.

Toni’s Global Engine Portfolio

Growth

A globally diversified long-term portfolio combining broad equity exposure, a structural tilt toward technology, and stabilizing bond allocations.

Total Market Portfolio

Market beta

A single-market portfolio capturing the full breadth of a domestic equity market through a total-market index.

Ultimate Buy & Hold REIT Variant

Growth

A Merriman-style tilted equity portfolio with a dedicated REIT allocation.

Ultimate Buy and Hold

Growth

Paul Merriman's highly diversified equity portfolio with factor tilts.

Venetian Merchant Portfolio

Growth

A medieval trade-capital portfolio built around maritime ventures, commodities, credit and precious-metal reserves.

Yale Endowment Model

Diversification

The institutional endowment model that popularized long-horizon diversification, manager selection and heavy use of alternatives.

Intent

MARKET_BETA

Market Beta

Own the broad market return as cleanly as possible.

Market beta portfolios are designed to capture broad public-market exposure rather than express a strong tactical view. They usually rely on global equities, total-market funds or simple stock/bond mixes.

Best for

Investors who want broad participation in capitalism with minimal manager dependence.

Watch out

Market beta is still market risk; it can suffer large global drawdowns.

Intent

INCOME

Income

Generate recurring cash flow.

Income portfolios prioritize dividends, coupons, rents or distributions. The objective is not necessarily maximum wealth growth, but funding spending needs or creating predictable cash flow.

Best for

Retirees, liability-focused investors or income-oriented allocators.

Watch out

High yield can hide credit risk, duration risk or capital erosion.

Associated portfolios

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Banker Portfolio (Rothschild Style)

Income

An early institutional portfolio centered on sovereign debt, private credit and gold, driven by information, relationships and cross-border capital flows.

Bond Ladder Portfolio

Capital preservation

A fixed-income structure spreading maturities across time.

Coffeehouse REIT Variant

Diversification

A Coffeehouse-style lazy portfolio that keeps the classic 60/40 discipline while carving out an explicit real-estate sleeve inside the equity allocation.

Colonial Extraction Portfolio

Growth

An early-modern wealth system built on territorial expansion, resource extraction, forced labor and imperial trade flows.

Crassus Opportunistic Portfolio

Growth

A Roman elite wealth system built on land, embedded labor and aggressive opportunistic acquisition of distressed assets.

Crypto Income Portfolio

Speculation

A crypto-heavy income experiment pairing BTC/ETH with stablecoins and dividend or REIT exposure.

Dividend Aristocrats

Income

A dividend-growth equity strategy focused on companies with long records of consistently raising shareholder payouts.

Dividend REIT Income Portfolio

Income

A diversified income allocation combining dividend stocks, listed real estate, bonds and cash to avoid relying on a single yield source.

Dogs of the Dow

Income

A simple contrarian dividend strategy that buys the highest-yielding Dow Jones blue-chip stocks and rebalances annually.

Ecclesiastical Wealth System

Capital preservation

A land- and donation-based wealth system built on religious authority, tithes, tax privileges and institutional continuity.

Feudal Power Portfolio

Capital preservation

A feudal wealth system built on land, embedded labor, local monopoly rights and coercive power.

Global Real Estate Income

Income

An income portfolio built from global REITs, dividend stocks and bonds.

Global REIT Portfolio

Income

A pure listed real-estate portfolio using global REIT exposure.

Income Portfolio

Income

A portfolio designed to prioritize current income over maximum capital growth.

Medici Banking Portfolio

Growth

A Renaissance wealth system built on banking, trade finance, currency exchange, political influence and patronage networks.

Permanent Income Portfolio

Income

A Permanent Portfolio variant that adds a dedicated dividend and REIT income sleeve.

REIT Income Portfolio

Income

An income-oriented allocation that pairs real estate cash flows with bonds and liquidity.

Retirement Income Portfolio

Retirement

A diversified portfolio intended for withdrawals and stability during retirement.

Retirement Real Assets Portfolio

Retirement

A retirement portfolio with bonds, TIPS, dividend stocks, REITs and gold.

Roman Elite Power Portfolio

Capital preservation

A pre-modern elite wealth system built around productive land, embedded labor, enterprise exposure and precious-metal reserves.

Spain Classic RE Portfolio

Income

A very Spanish allocation: almost everything in local property, with a small guaranteed cash buffer.

SWR REIT & Gold Portfolio

Retirement

A safe-withdrawal oriented portfolio adding REITs, gold and cash to a stock-bond core.

Target Date Portfolio

Retirement

A lifecycle portfolio that automatically reduces risk over time.

Waqf Endowment Portfolio

Capital preservation

A medieval Islamic endowment model using productive assets to fund perpetual social, religious or civic purposes.

Intent

CAPITAL_PRESERVATION

Capital Preservation

Avoid permanent loss and reduce volatility.

Capital preservation portfolios put safety first. They usually emphasize short-duration bonds, cash, liquidity, high-quality credit or low-volatility assets. The goal is to avoid damage, even at the cost of lower upside.

Best for

Investors who cannot afford large losses or need near-term liquidity.

Watch out

Too much safety can lose purchasing power after inflation.

Associated portfolios

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Agrarian Land Wealth System

Survival

A land-based wealth system where ownership of productive land replaces mobility and becomes the primary engine of income and long-term wealth.

Bitcoin + Gold Portfolio

Hedging

A two-asset hard-money portfolio split equally between bitcoin and gold.

Bond Ladder Portfolio

Capital preservation

A fixed-income structure spreading maturities across time.

Coward's Portfolio

Diversification

A diversified lazy allocation using broad equity slices, small-cap value, listed real estate and bonds.

Desert Portfolio

Capital preservation

A defensive Permanent Portfolio-inspired allocation that reduces cash and increases exposure to stocks, long bonds and gold.

Dividend Aristocrats

Income

A dividend-growth equity strategy focused on companies with long records of consistently raising shareholder payouts.

Ecclesiastical Wealth System

Capital preservation

A land- and donation-based wealth system built on religious authority, tithes, tax privileges and institutional continuity.

Feudal Power Portfolio

Capital preservation

A feudal wealth system built on land, embedded labor, local monopoly rights and coercive power.

Four Pillars Portfolio

Diversification

A four-sleeve lazy portfolio covering domestic equities, international equities, listed real estate and bonds.

Gold Standard Portfolio

Capital preservation

A historical monetary portfolio built entirely around gold as the ultimate store of value and reserve asset.

Low Volatility Portfolio

Capital preservation

A defensive equity strategy focused on lower-beta stocks.

Minimum Variance Portfolio

Capital preservation

A portfolio optimized to reduce volatility relative to a standard equity benchmark.

Permanent Portfolio

All weather

Harry Browne’s four-regime wealth preservation portfolio, built to survive prosperity, inflation, deflation and recession without relying on forecasts.

Quality Portfolio

Growth

A systematic equity factor portfolio focused on financially strong, profitable and resilient companies.

Roman Elite Power Portfolio

Capital preservation

A pre-modern elite wealth system built around productive land, embedded labor, enterprise exposure and precious-metal reserves.

Waqf Endowment Portfolio

Capital preservation

A medieval Islamic endowment model using productive assets to fund perpetual social, religious or civic purposes.

Intent

ALL_WEATHER

All Weather

Survive multiple economic regimes.

All Weather portfolios diversify by macro environment: growth, recession, inflation, deflation and monetary stress. They do not simply avoid risk; they try to balance risks across regimes.

Best for

Investors worried about macro uncertainty and regime shifts.

Watch out

They may lag equity-heavy portfolios during long growth bull markets.

Associated portfolios

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All Seasons Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A simplified retail version of the All Weather idea, built to give individual investors a macro-diversified portfolio without institutional risk-parity machinery.

All Weather Portfolio

All weather

A macro-diversified portfolio designed to perform across different economic environments by balancing growth and inflation sensitivities.

Crypto All Weather

All weather

An all-weather-inspired portfolio with bitcoin added to stocks, bonds, gold and commodities.

Desert Portfolio

Capital preservation

A defensive Permanent Portfolio-inspired allocation that reduces cash and increases exposure to stocks, long bonds and gold.

Dragon Portfolio

Crisis resilience

An antifragile portfolio concept designed to grow and protect wealth across long secular cycles of prosperity, inflation, deflation and crisis.

European Permanent Portfolio

All weather

A European implementation of the Permanent Portfolio using European or global stocks, government bonds, gold and cash.

Gold Heavy Permanent Portfolio

All weather

A Permanent Portfolio variant that doubles the classic gold sleeve.

Golden Butterfly

All weather

A balanced portfolio combining growth, stability and real assets with a strong tilt toward small-cap value.

Permanent Income Portfolio

Income

A Permanent Portfolio variant that adds a dedicated dividend and REIT income sleeve.

Permanent Portfolio

All weather

Harry Browne’s four-regime wealth preservation portfolio, built to survive prosperity, inflation, deflation and recession without relying on forecasts.

Risk Parity Portfolio

All weather

An institutional portfolio framework that balances risk contribution across assets instead of capital allocation.

Intent

INFLATION_HEDGE

Inflation Hedge

Protect purchasing power when money loses value.

Inflation-hedge portfolios explicitly emphasize assets that may respond to inflation, currency debasement or supply shocks: gold, commodities, real assets, inflation-linked bonds and sometimes scarce digital assets.

Best for

Investors worried about inflation, currency weakness or hard-asset scarcity.

Watch out

Inflation hedges can be volatile and may lag badly when inflation is quiet.

Associated portfolios

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7Twelve Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A highly diversified multi-asset portfolio with 12 equally weighted sleeves across seven asset groups, designed to smooth returns across economic regimes.

All Asset Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A real-return focused multi-asset framework inspired by Rob Arnott and Research Affiliates, combining global beta and inflation-sensitive assets across regimes.

All Seasons Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A simplified retail version of the All Weather idea, built to give individual investors a macro-diversified portfolio without institutional risk-parity machinery.

Banker Portfolio (Rothschild Style)

Income

An early institutional portfolio centered on sovereign debt, private credit and gold, driven by information, relationships and cross-border capital flows.

Bitcoin + Gold Portfolio

Hedging

A two-asset hard-money portfolio split equally between bitcoin and gold.

Colonial Extraction Portfolio

Growth

An early-modern wealth system built on territorial expansion, resource extraction, forced labor and imperial trade flows.

Commodities Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A pure commodities portfolio designed to study broad commodity beta, inflation sensitivity and exposure to global resource cycles.

Commodity Trend Portfolio

Inflation hedge

An aggressive inflation and crisis-hedge portfolio combining broad commodity beta, managed futures trend following, gold and cash.

Crypto All Weather

All weather

An all-weather-inspired portfolio with bitcoin added to stocks, bonds, gold and commodities.

Crypto Minimalist Portfolio

Growth

The purest crypto allocation in the atlas: 100% bitcoin.

Crypto Risk-Managed Portfolio

Diversification

A crypto-heavy allocation with gold and cash ballast to reduce pure token concentration.

Desert Portfolio

Capital preservation

A defensive Permanent Portfolio-inspired allocation that reduces cash and increases exposure to stocks, long bonds and gold.

Dragon Portfolio

Crisis resilience

An antifragile portfolio concept designed to grow and protect wealth across long secular cycles of prosperity, inflation, deflation and crisis.

East India Company Portfolio

Growth

An early-modern joint-stock portfolio built around monopoly trade, corporate equity, commodities, credit and sovereign risk.

Equal Real Assets Portfolio

Inflation hedge

An equal-weight real-assets allocation across REITs, gold, commodities and TIPS, designed to diversify inflation and scarcity exposures.

European Permanent Portfolio

All weather

A European implementation of the Permanent Portfolio using European or global stocks, government bonds, gold and cash.

Gold & Bonds Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A defensive two-asset portfolio split equally between gold and bonds.

Gold Heavy Permanent Portfolio

All weather

A Permanent Portfolio variant that doubles the classic gold sleeve.

Gold Standard Portfolio

Capital preservation

A historical monetary portfolio built entirely around gold as the ultimate store of value and reserve asset.

Golden Butterfly

All weather

A balanced portfolio combining growth, stability and real assets with a strong tilt toward small-cap value.

Golden Ratio Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A modern risk-balanced portfolio using familiar asset classes in classic proportions.

Hard Assets Portfolio

Inflation hedge

An aggressive hard-assets portfolio built from gold, commodities, REITs and cash.

Inflation Barbell Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A barbell that mixes equity growth with gold, TIPS and broad commodities.

Inflation Protection Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A defensive inflation hedge built from TIPS, gold, commodities and a smaller equity sleeve.

Inflation Survival Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A real-world survival allocation used in high-inflation or currency-collapse environments, prioritizing hard assets, foreign currency and leverage avoidance.

Permanent Income Portfolio

Income

A Permanent Portfolio variant that adds a dedicated dividend and REIT income sleeve.

Permanent Portfolio

All weather

Harry Browne’s four-regime wealth preservation portfolio, built to survive prosperity, inflation, deflation and recession without relying on forecasts.

Precious Metals Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A broader precious-metals sleeve with gold, silver, commodities and liquidity.

Real Assets Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A diversified real-assets portfolio built around property, gold, broad commodities and TIPS.

REITs & Gold Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A compact real-assets blend of listed property, gold and bonds.

Retirement Real Assets Portfolio

Retirement

A retirement portfolio with bonds, TIPS, dividend stocks, REITs and gold.

Silk Road Caravan Portfolio

Growth

A pre-modern trade-route portfolio built around caravans, commodities, credit, protection and precious-metal liquidity.

Silver & Gold Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A concentrated precious-metals allocation split between gold and silver.

Stocks & Gold Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A simple two-sleeve portfolio combining equity growth with gold protection.

Stocks REITs Gold Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A compact real-assets equity portfolio with stocks, REITs and gold.

Swensen Real Assets Variant

Inflation hedge

A Swensen-inspired endowment allocation with a larger real-estate and inflation-linked bond sleeve.

SWR REIT & Gold Portfolio

Retirement

A safe-withdrawal oriented portfolio adding REITs, gold and cash to a stock-bond core.

UCITS Global REIT Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A European UCITS proxy for global listed real estate exposure.

UCITS Real Assets Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A UCITS-friendly real-assets portfolio using REITs, gold ETCs, commodities ETCs and inflation-linked bonds.

Venetian Merchant Portfolio

Growth

A medieval trade-capital portfolio built around maritime ventures, commodities, credit and precious-metal reserves.

Intent

CRISIS_RESILIENCE

Crisis Resilience

Stay functional during crashes, shocks and regime breaks.

Crisis-resilience portfolios are less about normal return optimization and more about stress behavior. They may use cash, gold, trend following, long bonds, hard assets or explicit crisis-alpha ideas.

Best for

Investors who care deeply about drawdowns, systemic stress and behavioral survivability.

Watch out

Crisis protection often has a cost during calm markets.

Intent

DIVERSIFICATION

Diversification

Reduce concentration through broad exposure.

Diversification portfolios try to avoid depending on a single asset, country, sector or outcome. They are often simple, broad and rules-based rather than highly optimized.

Best for

Investors who want a robust default allocation without extreme views.

Watch out

Diversification reduces concentration risk, but does not eliminate market risk.

Associated portfolios

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60/40 Portfolio

Diversification

The classic balanced portfolio combining equity growth and bond stability, widely used as a benchmark in institutional and retail investing.

7Twelve Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A highly diversified multi-asset portfolio with 12 equally weighted sleeves across seven asset groups, designed to smooth returns across economic regimes.

All Asset Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A real-return focused multi-asset framework inspired by Rob Arnott and Research Affiliates, combining global beta and inflation-sensitive assets across regimes.

Coffeehouse Portfolio

Diversification

Bill Schultheis’s relaxed lazy portfolio, built to deliver broad diversification without turning investing into a second job.

Coffeehouse REIT Variant

Diversification

A Coffeehouse-style lazy portfolio that keeps the classic 60/40 discipline while carving out an explicit real-estate sleeve inside the equity allocation.

Commodities Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A pure commodities portfolio designed to study broad commodity beta, inflation sensitivity and exposure to global resource cycles.

Core Four 60/40 Portfolio

Diversification

A moderate Core Four variant that pairs global equities with bonds and a small REIT allocation.

Core Four 80/20 Portfolio

Diversification

A simple four-fund portfolio combining global equities, bonds and real estate exposure in a low-maintenance structure.

Coward's Portfolio

Diversification

A diversified lazy allocation using broad equity slices, small-cap value, listed real estate and bonds.

Crypto All Weather

All weather

An all-weather-inspired portfolio with bitcoin added to stocks, bonds, gold and commodities.

Crypto Risk-Managed Portfolio

Diversification

A crypto-heavy allocation with gold and cash ballast to reduce pure token concentration.

Dividend REIT Income Portfolio

Income

A diversified income allocation combining dividend stocks, listed real estate, bonds and cash to avoid relying on a single yield source.

Equal Real Assets Portfolio

Inflation hedge

An equal-weight real-assets allocation across REITs, gold, commodities and TIPS, designed to diversify inflation and scarcity exposures.

Four Pillars Portfolio

Diversification

A four-sleeve lazy portfolio covering domestic equities, international equities, listed real estate and bonds.

Frank Armstrong Ideal Index

Diversification

A Frank Armstrong-style index portfolio with equity slices, international stocks, REITs and short bonds.

Harvard Endowment Model

Diversification

A large institutional endowment model emphasizing scale, external managers, alternatives, private equity and broad global diversification.

Ideal Index Portfolio

Diversification

A slice-and-dice lazy portfolio using international stocks, short bonds, REITs and US equity tilts.

Ivy Portfolio

Diversification

A simplified ETF-based portfolio designed to replicate endowment-style diversification using liquid assets.

No-Brainer Portfolio

Diversification

William Bernstein’s simple four-sleeve portfolio combining broad equities, small-cap value and bonds in equal weights.

Paella Portfolio

Diversification

A modernized Spanish household portfolio that keeps the real-estate anchor but adds cash, local bonds and global equities.

Swensen Portfolio

Diversification

A liquid retail adaptation of David Swensen’s Yale endowment philosophy, combining public equities, real estate, long bonds and inflation-linked bonds.

Talmud Portfolio

Diversification

A late-antique diversification rule that divides wealth between business, land and liquid reserves.

Yale Endowment Model

Diversification

The institutional endowment model that popularized long-horizon diversification, manager selection and heavy use of alternatives.

Intent

ALPHA

Alpha

Beat the market through skill or edge.

Alpha portfolios seek returns beyond passive market exposure. The edge may come from valuation, information, manager skill, factor timing, quantitative signals, deal access or execution.

Best for

Sophisticated investors who understand manager risk and strategy risk.

Watch out

Alpha is scarce, capacity-limited and often consumed by fees.

Intent

HEDGING

Hedging

Protect against specific shocks or tail events.

Hedging portfolios are designed to protect against rare but damaging events: inflation shocks, crashes, currency crises, volatility spikes or systemic stress. They often sacrifice carry or upside for protection.

Best for

Investors who want explicit protection against extreme scenarios.

Watch out

Hedges can be expensive and may underperform for long periods.

Associated portfolios

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All Seasons Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A simplified retail version of the All Weather idea, built to give individual investors a macro-diversified portfolio without institutional risk-parity machinery.

Banker Portfolio (Rothschild Style)

Income

An early institutional portfolio centered on sovereign debt, private credit and gold, driven by information, relationships and cross-border capital flows.

Bitcoin + Gold Portfolio

Hedging

A two-asset hard-money portfolio split equally between bitcoin and gold.

Commodity Trend Portfolio

Inflation hedge

An aggressive inflation and crisis-hedge portfolio combining broad commodity beta, managed futures trend following, gold and cash.

Crypto All Weather

All weather

An all-weather-inspired portfolio with bitcoin added to stocks, bonds, gold and commodities.

Crypto Minimalist Portfolio

Growth

The purest crypto allocation in the atlas: 100% bitcoin.

Crypto Risk-Managed Portfolio

Diversification

A crypto-heavy allocation with gold and cash ballast to reduce pure token concentration.

Desert Portfolio

Capital preservation

A defensive Permanent Portfolio-inspired allocation that reduces cash and increases exposure to stocks, long bonds and gold.

Dragon Portfolio

Crisis resilience

An antifragile portfolio concept designed to grow and protect wealth across long secular cycles of prosperity, inflation, deflation and crisis.

Equal Real Assets Portfolio

Inflation hedge

An equal-weight real-assets allocation across REITs, gold, commodities and TIPS, designed to diversify inflation and scarcity exposures.

European Permanent Portfolio

All weather

A European implementation of the Permanent Portfolio using European or global stocks, government bonds, gold and cash.

Gold & Bonds Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A defensive two-asset portfolio split equally between gold and bonds.

Gold Heavy Permanent Portfolio

All weather

A Permanent Portfolio variant that doubles the classic gold sleeve.

Gold Standard Portfolio

Capital preservation

A historical monetary portfolio built entirely around gold as the ultimate store of value and reserve asset.

Golden Butterfly

All weather

A balanced portfolio combining growth, stability and real assets with a strong tilt toward small-cap value.

Golden Ratio Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A modern risk-balanced portfolio using familiar asset classes in classic proportions.

Hard Assets Portfolio

Inflation hedge

An aggressive hard-assets portfolio built from gold, commodities, REITs and cash.

Inflation Barbell Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A barbell that mixes equity growth with gold, TIPS and broad commodities.

Inflation Protection Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A defensive inflation hedge built from TIPS, gold, commodities and a smaller equity sleeve.

Permanent Income Portfolio

Income

A Permanent Portfolio variant that adds a dedicated dividend and REIT income sleeve.

Permanent Portfolio

All weather

Harry Browne’s four-regime wealth preservation portfolio, built to survive prosperity, inflation, deflation and recession without relying on forecasts.

Precious Metals Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A broader precious-metals sleeve with gold, silver, commodities and liquidity.

Real Assets Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A diversified real-assets portfolio built around property, gold, broad commodities and TIPS.

REITs & Gold Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A compact real-assets blend of listed property, gold and bonds.

Retirement Real Assets Portfolio

Retirement

A retirement portfolio with bonds, TIPS, dividend stocks, REITs and gold.

Silver & Gold Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A concentrated precious-metals allocation split between gold and silver.

Stocks & Gold Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A simple two-sleeve portfolio combining equity growth with gold protection.

Stocks REITs Gold Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A compact real-assets equity portfolio with stocks, REITs and gold.

SWR REIT & Gold Portfolio

Retirement

A safe-withdrawal oriented portfolio adding REITs, gold and cash to a stock-bond core.

UCITS Real Assets Portfolio

Inflation hedge

A UCITS-friendly real-assets portfolio using REITs, gold ETCs, commodities ETCs and inflation-linked bonds.

Intent

RETIREMENT

Retirement

Fund spending needs across a long drawdown horizon.

Retirement portfolios focus on withdrawals, sequence risk, stability, inflation, income and behavioral simplicity. They are judged by funded lifestyle resilience, not only CAGR.

Best for

Investors approaching or already living from portfolio withdrawals.

Watch out

Yield, inflation and sequence risk can interact in uncomfortable ways.

Intent

SURVIVAL

Survival

Preserve basic resilience when normal finance breaks down.

Survival is mainly used for historical or crisis portfolios. It focuses on food access, mobility, networks, hard assets, foreign currency, custody and resilience rather than conventional return optimization.

Best for

Historical analysis, crisis frameworks and extreme monetary-stress scenarios.

Watch out

This is not a normal investment objective and should not be confused with a standard allocation model.