The Country Trust opinion involved a retirement account that allocates assets to different types of securities based on customers' risk profiles and market performance.

The firm allocates assets based on internal predictions of market direction.

There's a patent on allocating assets in a divorce settlement.

Some mutual funds are intended to time the market - specifically, the group known as flexible funds, which allocate assets among stocks, bonds and cash.

World bond fund managers must navigate geography and currencies while allocating assets - no easy task.

The managers allocate assets among various market segments, find securities that meet the investor's risk tolerance and monitor the portfolio.

In 1990-91 there had been the luxury of time to decide things, to allocate assets, to set up communications links and all the rest.

The group just created software that will allocate assets and rebalance portfolios with funds from 10 leading no-load fund companies.

Here are how four brokerage firms recommend allocating assets, with their recommendations in the previous quarters of 1991.

Plans about how to allocate assets may be corrupted.